re: #31 Honorary Yooper

I too have little patience for people running around and screaming that the world is ending. Far too many times in the past, such predictions have been made, usually with a time and a date. That time and date comes to pass without event. This includes greenies, religious nuts, psychics, ancient prophesy, etc.

Y2K, and now December 2012.

Doom and Gloom sells, because those scared of bad things happening in their hysteria inevitably end up causing that what they feared.