Maya mask. Stucco frieze from Placeres, Campeche.

DOOMSDAY DENIERS: I understand that the world will come to an end on December 21, 2012 – except in Santa Barbara.

That’s because nothing ever happens here unless we put it on the ballot. And not even then, most of the time.

I hear that millions of people in the outside world believe predictions – something to do with the Mayan calendar – that Earth will die in some horrible cataclysm that day. But I have not found one Santa Barbaran who believes it.

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