Sunday surprise: a couple of apocalyptic footnotes

[ by Charles Cameron — because they don’t deserve posts of their own, but I can’t resist posting them anyway ]

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Krasheninnikov prophecies about antichrist and mark of the beast:

Russian Orthodox adolescent Vyatcheslav Krasheninnikov said the following.

So much for Russia. In the US, meanwhile…

President Obama at the White House Correspondents Dinner said:

Michele Bachmann actually predicted that I would bring about the biblical end of days. Now, that’s a legacy. That’s big. I mean, Lincoln, Washington, they didn’t do that.

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There are plenty of serious things to be said about apocalypses secular and sacred — but the end of the world is also an endless source of the quirkiest imaginative leaps and punchlines.

i though Scott in particular might enjoy the prediction about the noses of airplanes and submarines…