The short answer is YES! It didn't take me long to put together my E'o'W playlist on Grooveshark from Three Dog Night and R.E.M., to Danzig and Britney Spears; musical performers have tried to cash in on impending doom at least since my parents were enjoying their adolescent years.
Perhaps even more troubling is the ridiculous amount of media attention given to Harold Camping and his followers leading up to the latest so-called "Rapture". All of the major networks from Fox to MSNBC, NPR, even the Daily Show are expending valuable time and resources "promoting" the misguided hypothesis that God's true believers will be swept to the heavens within 36 hours. The only actual news story that will emerge from Camping's rubble of dishonesty is what his former followers will do when nothing happens on May 21st. I can't wait to be around for that.
