You know what? I am starting to think that maybe the Mayans were on to something. Well, actually it is the paranoia created by the Mayan calendar that may be starting to make some sense. The Mayans never officially predicted that the world would end on December 21, 2012. That is just the date that their calendar ends. The new calendar would have obviously begun on December 22, 2012, but apparently the Mayans went out of business before the new calendars could start printing.

New evidence of the pending zombie apocalypse is just further proof that something horrible is on the horizon. Now that the drug lords have discovered the formula for turning everyday junkies into flesh-eating zombies, the world is in for it. Luckily, George A. Romero is still alive to give us all pointers on how to survive that part of the end of days.

But it isn’t just the bath salt zombies that make me think that our days on this rock are truly numbered. I was reading one of the news websites the other day and one of the headlines that caught my eye was “Romney Starting to be Considered Likeable by Voting Public.” It wasn’t on Fox News, so it has a shot at being true. Mitt Romney? Likeable? Then the bad news just kept piling on.

The next headline that caught my eye was some gloom and doom statement about how the dramatic rise in unemployment could cost Obama the election this year. That “dramatic rise” was from 8.1 percent all the way up to 8.2 percent. If you recently lost your job, then please know that I mean you no disrespect. But that is not what I would call a dramatic rise in the unemployment rate. If that is a “dramatic rise,” then the interest rate changes on my credit cards are “meteoric events.”

I guess my point is that the media, in all of its forms, is starting to turn on President Obama. People wanted change and now they don’t like the change they are getting. It seems as though most people were used to the Republican’s hammer to the groin and prefer that to the Democrat’s punch in the nose.

The American public is falling prey to the saying that “the devil you know is better than the devil you don’t.” People were comfortable with the Republicans because the average American could complain about the Republicans and the Republicans could have cared less what the average American had to say. The Democrats twist and mangle the average American’s opinions so badly that no one can even tell which statements were the originals any more.

Another sign that December 21, 2012 could be the end of days is when Hollywood started releasing major motion pictures based on board games. Look, I loved the game “Battleship” when I was a kid. But even I could have told you that there was no movie to be made from it. The bad guys in the movie “Battleship” actually shot big, red pegs into the good guys’ battleships. Pegs! Just like the game! I couldn’t believe what I was watching!

Movies are always good time capsules of our society and good indicators of how far society has slipped. In today’s movies, Kristen Stewart is considered fairer than Charlize Theron. That is just another thing that pushes us closer to the brink of oblivion.

Bath salt zombies, the media turning on the Democratic Party and improbable movies getting the green light are all just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the pending apocalypse. You will want to keep track of how many news stories have you scratching your head between now and December 21, 2012. They are all little clues as to how it will all end.

How do I see the world coming to an end on December 21, 2012? I am really not sure how it will play out, exactly. I can tell you that when you see the president interrupting your regularly scheduled program to read a statement that starts off with “Today, President-Elect Romney and I . . .” then that is when you can lock yourself in your Y2K shelter and just try to ride it out.

George N Root III is a Lockport resident and renowned zombie hunter. His column appears every Wednesday. He can be reached at georgeroot@verizon.net.

George N Root III is a Lockport resident and renowned zombie hunter. His column appears every Wednesday. He can be reached at georgeroot@verizon.net.