A pile of clothes is left on a sidewalk on Saturday on 25th Avenue Northeast in Seattle's Wedgewood neighborhood. The beginning of the end of the world was scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. Saturday (PDT). Radio minister Harold Camping has advertised the rapture with billboards and a media campaign. Some have poked fun at the prediction with parties and pranks, such as this pile of clothes and sign.  (AP Photo/seattlepi.com, Joshua Trujillo)

To quote Barry Manilow, “Looks like we made it!” If you’re reading this then it’s a fairly good indicator that the world did not end Saturday as predicted by a group of sincere religious people with cornmeal for brains. Whew. I was actually a little worried. The end of the world could have put a serious kink in our newspaper delivery system. I’m betting these doom-and-gloom dipsticks have already come up with the Big Excuse for what went wrong. The Almighty changed His mind, say. The dog ate my Leviticus … I’ll tell you what the basic flaw was. That dummy Harold Camping dared to put a date on his prophecy/Doug Clark, SR. More here.

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