Here is one solution to avoiding the ominous fiscal cliff – the end of the world

December promises to be a busy, event-filled month. And that’s without football.

So what’s happening? Well, there are the various holidays, biggest of which (to us Westerners) is Christmas.

There’s also the end of the world. For those not following along this will happen when the Mayan calendar (go check the one hanging in your kitchen) runs out Dec. 21. I don’t know the time, I’m not Nostradamus.

And of course there’s the fiscal cliff. You know the one. The agreement struck during debt ceiling negotiations in August 2011 between President Obama and Congress that if deficit reduction measures...