re: Would it be unseemly gloating...
You would have thought the world had been destroyed if you had been at the party I was at last month. ;^)
Another apocalypse deferred.
They keep piling up and up, until one day the karmic energy of so many lies is going to absolutely fry some apocalyptic conartist as he speaks his or her bs.
Since so many apocalyptic fanatics are males, I wonder if chialism is tied in to some dark twisted version of the male psyche?
Ed