TEOLAWKI again

The End Of Life As We Know It looms yet again. OpinionJournal reports on the new doomsaying:

• "Hawaiian Volcano Spewing More Lava Than Usual"--headline, Associated Press, July 5

• "The Worms Crawl In"--headline, New York Times, July 1

• "Earth Begins to Kill People for Changing Its Climate"--headline, Pravda, July 4

• "Australian Researchers Warn of Global Cooling"--headline, DailyTech.com, July 1

• "Scientists Warn U.S. Is Unprepared if Asteroid Strikes"--headline, Seattle Times, July 5

• "Smallest Planet Shrinks in Size"--headline, BBC Web site, July 4

• "Report: The End of the Internet Is Near"--headline, FoxNews.com, July 6

First there was the supernova and galaxy-attack scenarios. Then the predicted return of the comet Genondahwayanung, which pretty much annihilated most life in North America when it came here the first time. And then the massive gas cloud speeding toward a collision with the Milky Way! Then we learn that the earth's atmosphere may detonate. And then the asteroids. Then the black hole death stars! Then we'll be swallowed whole by the sun. Then the intense beam of gamma rays coming our way. Then there was the fear that "human society is very quickly headed to a violent and disturbing end." I tell ya, I'm starting to think that sooner or later, every one of us is going to wind up dead.