2000 AD

2000 AD is a UK Comics Magazine, a new issue released every week. This last week, issue 1532, they had a story called Future Shocks: Drive, He Said with this panel:




Very tongue in cheek, with a delightfully "Twilight Zone" ending. It seems like today is just a treasure trove of Apocalyptic Warning Signs.

Today we had:
Va Tech Shooting
Yangzte River Pollution Report
Vets getting their arms torn off by Crocodiles


At least we can rest easy with the Commemoration of "LSD Day". Long Live April 16, 1943. And this is really fantastic too.

The Yangtze Probably only the Three Hundreth Warning Sign

China - Yangtze is Irreversibly Polluted

China's massive Yangtze river, a lifeline for tens of millions of people, is seriously polluted and the damage is almost irreversible, a state-run newspaper said Monday.

"The impact of human activities on the Yangtze water ecology is largely irreversible," Yang Guishan, a researcher at the Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was quoted as saying.


(Source: http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2007/04/15/china_yangtze_is_irreversibly_polluted/)

New Blog, Same Old Schtick

Welcome to the End of the World. Everyone's initials are LB and we list things really fast. Boy I can't wait 'til everything ends.


Thanks to Grant Morrison for giving me a Final Countdown.

It is 1719 days, 23 hours, 12 minutes and 0 seconds until Sunday, January 1, 2012 (New York time)