The Antichrist

from a nytimes article:

The wager of the day on [BetUS.com]: "Will the World End on 6-6-06?" By 6 p.m. yesterday, 216 of the 700 gamblers had bet an average of just more than $2 that yes, the world would end. The odds stood at 100,000 to 1.

first of all, i'd just like to say thanks to those 216 people for trying to cash in on the annihilation of mankind. i appreciate their faith in our species. second of all, how do they plan on collecting their winnings? part of the whole "world ending" scenario does, in fact, involve the world actually ending. i'm sure a few hundred grand is going to go a long way on a post-apocalyptic planet earth. thirdly, it's about 8:00 in the evening right now, and the world still hasn't ended. what is the antichrist waiting for? don't you think he'd be kind of chomping at the bit to get the mayhem and anarchy and human suffering underway? finally, what business does this story have on the front page of the nytimes site? i'd understand if it was in the "quirky news" section or something. are we now celebrating people's stupidity? great. we've got plenty to go around.

here are some things i've witnessed/experienced on my bike trips to my internship downtown:

1. a homeless guy with jeans hanging around his knees and his ass hanging in the breeze
2. a man in a red sedan rolling down his window and blatantly dropping trash onto the ground in front of me
3. countless people suddenly changing direction right before i pass them so i nearly slam into them
4. a "fuck you" from a beefy mexican girl after i hopped off the curb into the street to avoid having to try to maneuver around her and her friend
5. every possible red light on the 4 or so miles to the latimes building
6. an asian man slowly pushing a cart through a crosswalk despite the fact that he saw the police cruiser blazing down the street toward him with its siren wailing
7. four different creepy guys unabashedly ogling four different (unattractive) girls at four different locations on one trip
8. countless "horn-rapings" of tourists by veteran drivers