Plutonian Ode: The Triumph of the Apocalyptics

Chris Floyd

Oh my god, the right-wing nutballs predicting apocalypse this week were absolutely right after all! (Say on, brother! Lord have mercy! Fire and brimstone! Ghost riders in the sky!) The planet WAS destroyed, in one great, all-obliterating, unexpected blow! True, the planet was Pluto -- stripped of its rank in the solar system today by the International Astronomical Union -- and yes, the prediction was off by two days...but only a godless cynic would split infinitesimal hairs like that, when God His Own Self has so ringingly confirmed the credibility, veracity and sanity of his prophets. Let no liberal Persian-lover mock Bernard Lewis as a panicky fantasist now! Let none say CNN-touted "expert" Robert Spencer is a lunatic-fringe loon who in a civilized society would have been relegated to the cool mud under a warm rock now! They said there'd be apocalypse this week -- and now a planet is no more...

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