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...popular in this day and age, Richmond postulates, not only because the remainder of the male leads are scrawny and naive little boys, but because George knows what it is to be a man: "If there seems to be some question about the role of the male in late-millennium America, about how you're supposed to act as a man right now, there's no question in George's mind." George knows the answer: now is the time to be a guy again. Guys never let the women pay the check and always take care of their stuff, their...
Judging from the popular response to the Common Era's fast-approaching 2000th birthday, the Two-Thousand-Year Old Man must marvel at how little we have changed. With only three or four years to go (depending on whom you ask) until the dawn of the next millennium, the commotion is already reaching a fever-pitch...
Clearly, the millenarian fuss is not attributable to any one thing. But one of its sources has long fascinated me: the prophecies of Nostradamus. Nowadays, every pulp television program on the millennium seems to place this enigmatic 16th century French citizen at center stage. He is touted constantly as the predictor of the Kennedy assassinations, Saddam Hussein, Hitler, AIDS and just about everything else. Finally, my curiosity compelled me to sit down and read his main work, Les Propheties...
Nostradamus does indeed seem to predict a major catastrophe on the verge of the millennium...
...only things were so simple. Scientists are now reporting that the El Nino warming has begun to slow. Indeed, everyone expects this El Nino to peter out completely by May. The millennium beckons, but, alas, the apocalypse will have to wait...