It’s December 21, 2012, the are no asteroids, meteorites, massive earthquakes, tsunamis, or any shocking news, it looks like the world is not ending today. Heck, the news is actually quite predictable today, the NRA has said they want guns in schools and Obama has asked John Kerry to be his Secretary of State.

Even if there are massive earthquakes and tsunamis and a meteorite or asteroid strike it wouldn’t mean that the prophesies of the nutters came true. It would just be an ironic coincidence that a few normal events took place at the arbitrary time on one particular ancient culture’s calendar that crazy people have attached special meaning too. For their prophecy to come true it would have to be the actual end of the world, not business as usual.

The one thing we can say for certain about today is that it will be the day that those of us in the Northern Hemisphere will have the fewest hours of sunlight out of the year and the only thing we know for sure about tomorrow is that it will have a little more opportunity for sunlight than today.