Every year brings with it a fresh barrage from Spiro Agnew's "nattering naybobs of negativity," screaming about impending disasters that never seem to arrive. For example, Gary North first showed up on my Apocalypse radar screen a decade ago with his endless screeds about how the "Y2K" computer glitch spelled the end of Western civilization. Mr. North seems to shout "wolf" of a different color each and every year. And Gary North is not alone, though he has moderated his alarmism somewhat in recent years. Global warming, the coming mini-Ice Age, Planet X, gamma rays, financial derivatives and so on. You know the drill. Well, maybe derivatives shouldn't be in that particular list, come to think of it.
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