13 Predictions for 2012

I just saw something like this at Peppylady’s blog and couldn’t resist giving it a try. Here are my predictions for the coming year.

1. Someone somewhere is going to starve. Too obvious? Ok, it’ll be someone in the USA that makes the national news.

2. There will be some unpleasantly record-breaking weather.

3. A hurricane will reach into some part of the Midwest. Maybe not Kansas, but at least Illinois.

4. Someone will invent or bring everyone’s attention to a really spiffy building technique that’s good in high-winds, high-water, and earthquakes.

5. I’ll publish at least two books.

6. You will read at least one of my books and actually like it.

7. The Republicans will lose ground on the wings of some really stupid activity on their part.

8. The Democrats will do something stupid too, but no one will notice because it’s just another sex scandal type thing and has nothing to do with verifiable facts like what is or is not in the constitution.

9. I’ll discover a new rock band (new to me, anyway) and blog about them. Everyone else in the world will already know about them.

10. A video about a cat will go viral, superseding news about Obama’s wife.

11. Huffington Post will get into trouble for saying something that will later turn out to be true.

12. EBay stock will go up. Google will go down. And all the other stocks on the market will tap dance.

13. The world as we know it will end. The ending will be televised. The next day we will start in on a brave new world.