A brief history of the end of the world

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 19:22:00 +0000

The world did not end! That is great news! Besides meaning that we will all live to see the next season of "Girls," today's notable absence of earthquakes, floods and other apocalyptic ephemera connects us to a long, happy tradition of losing our minds about the end of the world. From 2800 B.C. to 2012, a look back at the apocalypses that got away.

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Limbaugh: Maybe the Mayan apocalypse made Adam Lanza do it

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 15:52:00 +0000

Rush Limbaugh advanced another wacky Adam Lanza theory Thursday: the end of the world made him do it.

As Rush details on his web site, Lanza -- whose mother, Nancy, was reportedly a doomsday "prepper" -- either couldn't deal with the possibility of the Mayan apocalypse on Friday or wanted to "save people" from it.

As he pushed this theory, Limbaugh had it both ways. "I'm not espousing it, I just want to bounce off of it." Here's how he bounced:

The theory that Adam Lanza somehow had been convinced the world was gonna end Friday and he was discombobulated by it. His mother was a prepper and a survivalist and showed him guns and he went in there and did what he did to either deal with the pressure of it or maybe save people from the end, who knows what. It happened in China, is the point.

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A brief history of the end of the world

Limbaugh: Maybe the Mayan apocalypse made Adam Lanza do it