My local free alt-weekly, the Portland Phoenix, has a cheeky sense of humor along with a commitment to covering issues like state prison abuses. This week, they let the editorial funny bone free with this tabloid-like cover (which actually had me fooled from a distance — didn’t even notice their logo at first) dedicated to the latest predicted date of the Rapture: this Saturday, May 21, 2011. Just in case you haven’t caught wind of this one yet, 89-year-old radio evangelist Harold Camping has decided, after “a half-century of ‘intensive biblical study’,” that tomorrow’s the day. Again. Camping first predicted the Rapture almost twenty years ago in a book called 1994? But as one of Camping’s followers notes to Phoenix writer Chris Faraone, who embedded himself with a group of believers as they stormed NYC last week, “That one had a question mark. This one has an exclamation point.”
Personally, as someone who helps edit and proofread Planet Waves, I think it’s nice to see punctuation getting its due.