Date With Doom

So the man President Obama wanted to talk to with no preconditions, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is shooting off his mouth again.

He's promised a "telling blow against global arrogance" and the "end of American civilization." He's enough of a religious fanatic that he might mean it literally, though he's also used enough weasel words to mean it metaphorically, and to seize on any event to fulfill his prediction.

The creepiest part is he's given a date: February 11th, a week from now. It coincides with a celebration of the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran.

Still, it's usually wise for religious leaders not to be too specific about dates. So I'm almost impressed by Ahmadinejad's bold claim.

I'm reminded of a scene from Men In Black. Will Smith, still a regular cop, is being questioned by Tommy Lee Jones. Smith says he saw an alien, and the alien said the world was coming to end. Jones asks did he say when?