Amazing. I didn't think it was possible to write a boring apocalypse article but The Mercury proved me wrong.

yawn.

this article was pretty stupid

Now come on guys, Erik really tried his best. And in the end that's all that really matters, right?

one might wonder if this author was writing per a given audience’s expectations, rather than what some public might better chow down upon, our public 'potential, or benefit', as it were -
i mean if those out there on the other side of the page, the the more passive side by convention, the readers, if they/we demonstrated more often our intellectual demands, eventually those who wrote pabulum would be farmed out to the infant and/or senile - and some of us wouldn’t be bored, but others would get ‘left behind’
-and those of substance would flourish among their kind-

aren’t ideals great

with those who believe in zombies and rapturings, it is difficult to reason, having that not in common
there are those who think they could simply close a door and the oncoming -let's say glacial melt- will pass them by, but,
the the winds of dog will come and blow them away and separate them into heaven and hell as sure as the US justice system - and there ain't nothin' you can do about that! -
so you can see the difficulties in presenting reason to that sort of mind

What would a 'really serious' article about the "apocalypse" (the ship Cousteau sailed?) look like, eh?
would it have fold-outs of how the buildings really collapsed and the heavens really opened?

would abandoned underwear be a sign that the rapture was underway?

Then I say - all you who work in multi-story buildings , donate to this worthy cause and throw your underwear out the highest window, let the wind catch it and let it be a sign that the end of the world as we know it has come; let all this liberated underwear be evidence that thousands of us have ascended, leaving behind the predicted empty underwear; and here you are, still here, and look who’s around you?
Is this what you thought the preacher promised you as the collection plate came around?

for this, the expression "You've got another think coming, eh?" serves so well

vocab 6 th grade
style 6 th grade
challenge 6 th grade

statistically, this suits us, the american lcd public

in the right to privacy is included the right to be and to remain, ignorant

ignorance is so much less fuss and bother than tinkering or re-invention-

but i like the graphic for the article - much more informative than any article could be

This was a sad, sad article. Firstly, there was ZERO tie in to any current topical mainstream media event, so the choice of this as the cover article was just confusing. Nice clustering of potential Apocalypse events by category, but really, the movie references got a little old. One or two were funny, but that bit wore out really quickly. It'd have been better just to have a side article listing all of the related movies, and use the space to develop some of the ideas. And if you are going to just do an Armageddon-movie montage, no reference to End of Days? I Am Legend? Apocalypto, for chrissake?! It's got Apocalpse in the name of the movie!

My general feeling about this is that Erik put off writing this until 15 minutes before his final deadline, and then just put down whatever he could think of. Please don't do that again. I know your paper is a rag, but at least I could count on it being a sarcastic, insightful and humorous rag. This was just disappointing.

I liked the words and the pictures.
Everything else totally sucked!