A sign that the Mayan prediction is near

The Mayan calendar predicts that the world will end in 2012.  While there are some believers and some skeptics out there, we may have just witnessed a true and telling sign that the end of the world as we know it is very near...

Rutgers University paid Nicole Polizzi aka "Snookie" from the cast of MTV's The Jersey Shore, a whopping $32,000 for an on campus speaking engagement.  Not only can I not think of one intelligent thing she would have to say, the real surprise is that she was paid more money to speak than Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning author Toni Morrison who is scheduled to speak at the schools upcoming graduation ceremony in May. 

I guess this goes to show us as a country where our priorities are and why college tuition is so expensive.