I don’t know why my mother told me I was born on the day Vanessa Williams resigned her Miss America crown. Except that I do: She foresaw my future beauty and/or power coming at the cost of another woman’s, projected sashes, crowns, and glory, if only because Vanessa Williams lost them. My mother is no fortune-teller, no temple-rubbing psychic, so she’s gotten a few things wrong. I am not a pageant beauty, and

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“And if it’s one thing I hate more than prophecy, it’s self-fulfilling prophecy.” --Bill Maher

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Sorting Through: The End

There’s more than one way for the world to end. Isn’t that a line from a movie? Some back-alley herald? It must be. It has to be. Or, at least, it should be.  

As We Know It

Wikipedia’s incomplete “List of Dates Predicted for Apocalyptic events”…