Hitting a Home Run in the Face of the Apocalypse:

Gail Collins socked one out of the park today with her op-ed in the Times:

Really, for ultraconservatives, the last year has been one sign of the apocalypse after the other. Soon, the rivers will run red with Starbucks Raspberry-Flavored Tazo Passion Shaken Iced Tea. Owls will give birth to two-headed frogs who shriek the lyrics to Lady Gaga songs.

Don't miss the end of the story when Collins asks why, when she was a kid and the nuns sent her home from school on Friday with the affirmation that the end would come on Sunday, they also gave her homework that was due on Monday.

Or her explication of the Nostradamus lines

For the merry maid the bright splendor
Will shine no longer, for long will she be without salt.
With merchants, bullies, wolves odious,
All confusion universal monster.

"Which is obviously a foretelling of the Sarah Palin book tour." Zinnngggg!!!