Year in Review: 2006

SLIGHTLY OFF THE MARK

The first of the year is a great time for making predictions, mostly because so many other people are making predictions that no one will remember how wrong you were.

    I’m writing this on 12/12/12, which I figure will give me some kind of magical ability to see the future. Unless the world ends on December 21st, in which case this will be wasted effort … didn’t see that coming. (Note: The world was still there on December 22nd. Of course, if it hadn’t been you wouldn’t be reading this, huh?)

I could make those very general, obvious predictions that many a prognosticator happily claim to be right about. In 2013:

    A politician will say something stupid.

    A Hollywood starlet will be caught in a short skirt, climbing out of a low car seat, with a marked lack of undergarments.

    A natural disaster will make the news.

    A major sports figure will Tweet something controversial.

    I’ll get hurt while doing a home improvement project.

    See? Easy stuff.

  

( But I’m too lazy even for that, so instead I went back to a column I wrote in September, 2006, in which I predicted what was going to happen long range. How right was I? Let’s find out: )