There used to be someone here who could be counted on to post the lyrics to Billy Joel's "Angry Young Man" in this situation. As the building code people say, adopted by reference.

End-of-the-world predictors come in all stripes and hues, too. So do the people who believe them. The wasted few suicide, and sometimes take others with them (see also: Heaven's Gate, Jonestown, and David Koresh). Some do press on, crankier by the year.

Most of us realize, at some point, that the end of the world (as we know it, Hugh) is one of those "always 20 years away" things, like controlled fusion. And there's that 20 years to get through in the meantime... so we do that, instead.

Dare I quote REM? Sure, why not.

It's the end of the world as we know it

and I feel fine