Editorial 5/26/11

A slight reprieve from Doomsday

Last week the world was supposed to come to an end.

Radio pastor Harold Camping declared that at 6:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 21, 2011, Rapture would occur.

Starting in New Zealand with massive earthquakes, Judgement Day was to encircle the globe and all mankind.

Camping was wrong, just as he had been wrong years ago with his first prediction of Doomsday.

The mistake was his. A simple miscalculation, he said. He had forgotten to carry the one. Now, he says the world will end in October, presumably after the Mariners win the world series.

He doesn’t seem at all det...