Poor George W. Nobody just “likes” him anymore. Either you hate him or you love him.

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According to the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA), former Slovenian president (or premier) Janez Drnovsek predicts that we’re heading towards doomsday.

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Did you know that there is an International Federation of Competitive Eating?

Did you know that they sponsor something called “Major League Eatingâ„¢”?

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This Is Bradford has an excellent essay on the sequence of apocalypses we see marching through, and how we seem not to have managed to have undersea cities.

“Like nature, pessimism, it seems, abhors a vacuum.”

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The Palm Beach Post is concerned about what will happen to New York City in the future. They talk about predictions that in 2050 sea level around New York may rise 19 inches (but will be devoid of fish, according to other reports), and three feet by 2080.

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Ebola has been out of the news for a while, but it’s making a comeback. According to New Scientist, the Ebola virus is spreading across Africa, possibly being carried by bats, through lowland gorilla populations.

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“The Zero Club” is described as an award-winning musical comedy about nuclear holocaust. Playing on November 14th at the Regent Theater in Arlington, MA, it’s about “an ordinary girl” who infiltrates the Zero Club, a group of people who fight the fear of nuclear war with comedy.

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Florida tells us the solution to the fish famine: “Put little fish in the waters and let them multiply”.

Why not just leave it “Let there be light?”.

Via: Dire forecasts and our reactions to them: South Florida Sun-Sentinel

The UK’s “The Register” rips the New York Times article on the US government web site which supposedly posted Iraqi instructions on making nuclear weapons in their own inimical way.

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This is a good thing, not a bad thing. I think. CBS is going to take a break from Jericho on Wednesday November 29th, with a midseason “cliffhanger finale”, and come back in February for sweeps month and run the remaining episodes without reruns.

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