This is the way the world ends

Some claim that robots will arise and destroy their makers; others fear the irrepressible menace of flesh-gobbling zombies.

Daniel Nexon, however, has been tracking a danger that just may outstrip them all.

And now that the Seed Vault of Doom has opened, the silence from our presidential candidates indicates nothing less than their total complicity. Even Nader has refused to address the Svalbard Threat.

We’re through the looking glass, people.