An official statement from a Mayan religious body has said that they are sorry but they lost 200 years in their calculations. So the end of the world won’t happen in 2012 as we all hoped. It will take another couple of hundred years. And just as all the omens were looking good. Pollution, global warming, epidemics, genocide, famine, insane wars and all the other stuff.

So what can we do about it. We in this country obviously require some disaster to be afraid of or our lives are not complete. A replacement must be found.

I have been an AARP member for twenty five years or more and their magazine often has interesting material over those years concerning scams that are directed to older folks.

Some are obvious to any alert person who isn’t likely to give Social Security number or credit card numbers to every sweet voiced Southern girl who rings just to check something out for you. Some are harder to believe, like the number of priests who have managed to persuade widows and sometimes widowers to will their property to the ever present and persistent cleric.