Double or Nothing

I've never done anything like this before, but I noticed that BetUS.com has posted odds on the apocalypse occurring tomorrow, and I'm going to wager all my money against the event at a mere -100000/1. I can see myself on Wednesday, cashing out the fourteen cents that I won from the Rapture not happening. Now, those of us following along the Rapture Index might consider taking the plus ten-to-odds in favor of the world ending tomorrow — the index, "the prophetic speedometer of end-time activity," is at a healthy 157, but thankfully worldwide apostasy has declined. I guess.

I'll do the bookies at BetUS.com one better — I'm offering infinity-to-one odds on the apocalypse happening sometime between 12:00 AM and 11:59 PM EST, June 6, 2006. Hell, I'll sweeten the pot even more and take out that Eastern Standard Time requirement; if it's June 6, 2006 anywhere in the world when it ends, you win. Assuming you're still around to collect, which you won't be, because the apocalypse just happened.