...there are exceptions to this rule. There is a sizable handful of predictions that I would bet my pension will prove accurate at least 99 out of 100 times. I predict, for example, that next year every football team that wins a big game will feature a gigantic lineman dumping the contents of a Gator Aid cooler over the happy head of the team's Head Coach.... I predict that every American politician seeking office will claim to know what "the American people" want and that he or she is most trustworthy champion of that collective desire.... I predict that Paul Krugman's next New York Times column will self-righteously accuse the Bush administration or "conservatives" of evil-intentions and evil-doings.... And I predict that every political strongman will blame "speculators" for many of the economic ills that befall the citizen-victims of their countries.