Predictions

There is a pundit named Nate Silver who somehow defied conventional wisdom and used his intelligence and polling data to accurately predict the 2012 election results.  Not just that Obama would win, but how every state would vote.  Pretty impressive, right?

Small potatoes.

Today, I announce my sure thing predictions for the rest of 2013.  Guaranteed to come true or they won't.

1)  Justin Beiber will reveal that he is a complete idiot.  Oh, wait....  FULFILLED

2)  The Sacramento Kings will win more than 28 games.  That's what they won last year, and I am convinced that the new management alone will add at least 2 - 3 games to that total.  That doesn't seem like much, but it's a start.

3)  The movie industry will announce that fully one-third of the releases in 2014 will either be sequels or remakes.  OK....that's snarky.  But come on!  Just in the last couple of weeks we have seen Star Trek 2 and Iron Man 3 (sounds like a hockey score).  Man of Steel, the new Superman film, is coming out, as is the next film in the Hobbit series, Monsters U. (from Monsters, Inc.), Wolverine, Despicable Me 2, Much Ado About Nothing, the new Spiderman film, Transformers 4, Star Wars 7....and so on, and so on....

4)  The movie industry will also announce that the same percentage of their films will be rated "R".

5)  American Idol will continue to tank, but shows of that ilk will continue to be produced ad nauseum.

6)  Someone will write to the FCC and insist that the History Channel no longer be allowed to use "History" in its name, the Discovery Channel no longer to announce any discoveries, and AMC never use the word "movie" or "classic" when discussing its current incarnation.

7)  BBC America will continue to gain viewers, and will cause Americans to begins spelling "color" and words of that sort with a "u", as in "colour".

8)  A new cable channel will be announced.  The Zombie Channel will debut, and some critic will state that it is "dead on arrival".  (I continue to be fascinated as to why zombies are so popular these days.  Maybe teenagers identify with their personalities.)

9)  Scotland will not secede from the UK.  (That's a real prediction.)

10)  Fox News will continue to be a bunch of right-wing nuts who pay no attention to facts that might undermine their rants.  (100% guarantee)

More to come!