No Gloating
Says Mark Steyn:
Usually in this spot each year I do an insufferable gloat-fest on the amazing accuracy of my columnar predictions from the last 12 months. But to be honest my heart’s not in it this year.Hmmm… maybe I should follow Steyn’s lead and spare my readers a list of the innumerable prescient predictions they saw on this web site this year.
Steyn goes on:
Although my confident assertion that Adrien Brody would win the Best Actor Oscar required a tiny modicum of prognosticatory skill, almost everything else I predicted was perfectly obvious - or, as I put it in The Spectator of March 29, “Let me go out on a limb here: the Anglo-Aussie-American forces will win.” A week later, in an otherwise hilariously pessimistic issue of the Speccie, I reckoned Baghdad would fall within the next seven to 10 days. It took six.Hey, I predicted that too! Must … stop … gloating. -- PoliPundit