3 Haas avocados, halved, seeded and peeled
1 lime, juiced
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
1/2 teaspoon cayenne
1/2 medium onion, diced
2 Roma tomatoes, seeded and diced
1 tablespoon chopped cilantro
1 clove garlic, minced

In a large bowl place the scooped avocado pulp and lime juice, toss to coat. Drain, and reserve the lime juice, after all of the avocados have been coated. Using a potato masher add the salt, cumin, and cayenne and mash. Then, fold in the onions, tomatoes, cilantro, and garlic. Add 1 tablespoon of the reserved lime juice. Let sit at room temperature for 1 hour and then serve.

1. “Thousands” - That’s interesting because that’s about equal to the amount of people who believe they could be the next American Idol.
Thousands believe they have what it takes to be the next American Idol

2. The Mayan calendar ends, but not in the traditional way we interpret “end.” They mean “reset,” which essentially means the calendar just starts over. It’s kind of like old school video games that would just start over from the beginning when you beat them.

I just don’t buy that the Mayans, as advanced as they were, discovered a way to see the end of the world. I mean, if they saw the end of the world and put it on the calendar, I would think they would have also noted on that calendar the day the Spanish stopped by for a visit.

The calendar need not begin at the beginning of time. They could have just created a calendar that told them the end of the world, not necessarily the beginning. You are thinking in a Gregorian method, that you can just go all the way backwards to 150,000,000 BCE. Technically speaking our calendar doesn’t have a beginning or an end. Think about it this way, if we found out that there was this asteroid that was going to smash into Earth and we knew the exact date then we would have an “end date” to our calendar, right? (That is of course barring a crew of heroic oil drillers who trained to become astronauts in 8 days and then miraculously saved us 2 seconds from “zero barrier”).

I do not mean to end your party before it begins, but if you are telling me that because the Mayan calendar ends on our equivalent of Dec. 21, 2012, and that its end signifies the end of the world, than for that theory to hold true, the beginning date of that Mayan calendar had to have started the day the world began. But I’ll give you my guac recipe just in case.

On a side note, I do love the title of that article, “Thousands Expect Apocalypse in 2012.” Thousands… wow.