Tom Tomorrow's predictions for 2006

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For anybody who doesn't know, Tom Tomorrow is not only a brilliant political cartoonist but also a better-than-average blogger. His prediction list for 2006, just up, reads:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://thismodernworld.com/2580">thismodernworld.com/2580</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Predictions</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>Everyone else is doing it — so I, too, will go way out on a limb, putting my very credibility as a political and social observer at risk:<br><br>TOP 10 PREDICTIONS FOR 2006<br><br>1. Bad things will happen in the world.<br>2. Good things will also happen.<br>3. Conservative bloggers will blame liberals for the former.<br>4. Conservative bloggers will take credit for the latter.<br>5. Winter will be followed by spring.<br>6. Bill O’Reilly will act like an egomaniacal buffoon.<br>7. Spring will be followed by summer.<br>8. New revelations will prove the Bushies to be even more corrupt and incompetent than we already thought, and we already thought they were pretty darned corrupt and incompetent.<br>9. Americans will be afraid of something.<br>10. George W. Bush will pull off his human flesh-mask on live tv, revealing his true identity as the ancient and monstrous entity, Cthulhu.<br><br>Okay, that last one is kind of a wild card.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br> <p></p><i></i>

[marykmusic]

This Modern World is one of my favorite panel cartoons, and has been for years. When y'all go to Tom Tomorrow's site, look for TMW. --MaryK <p></p><i></i>

[emad]

11/8 Poodle resigns/removed from office<br>25/1 QEII dies, is succeeded by non-House of Windsor<br><br>TAKEN as a win double, these are amazing odds, truly worth putting that shirt on. <p></p><i></i>

[slomo]

There is some justification for prediction #10. See<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2005/05/dark-horse-and-dead-cattle.html">rigorousintuition.blogspo...attle.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>"...Dead squid, too, like those noted in a comment yesterday, that 'hundreds of dead large squid' had washed up in Orange County, California, as Bush made his likely unconscious allusion to the cephalopodic Cthulhu.)" <p></p><i></i>

[StarmanSkye]

More on Prediction no. 10 --<br><br>Speaking of cephalopodic Cthulhu, I JUST read this bit of trivia which also MIGHT be relevant, re: a trait Bush could take advantage of:<br><br>When faced with danger, the octopus can wrap six of its legs around its head to disguise itself as a fallen coconut shell and escape by walking backwards on the other two legs, scientists discovered. <br><br>-- from 100 things we didn't know this time last year, #29, <br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4566526.stm">news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4566526.stm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Wouldn't put it past 'im.<br>Starman <p></p><i></i>