Last year, I was too busy to make predictions. I only made one, and I was right: Mitt Romney was indeed the Republican nominee for President. I never got around to making any others.
This year, I’ll make a few more.
Politics: June will be all about same-sex marriage. I predict the Supreme Court will interpret the Constitution such that states may define marriage as each state wishes but the Federal government must respect each state’s rights, and that states that do not have same-sex marriage will be required to find a cognate for couples holding marriage licenses from other states. Consequently, same-sex couples married in Iowa and moving to Wisconsin will find themselves transmogrified into members of a civil union, and married for purposes of Federal law. This will please no one but be more acceptable to SSM advocates than SSM opponents.
Technology: Microsoft will patch Windows 8 for laptops and desktops to go directly to a more classic interface. Mac users will gloat that the Mountain Lion OS X never needed any such thing but then Apple will release OS XI, code-named Cougar, with Courtney Cox and Christa Miller hired as spokespeople, and it’ll be something of a dud, delivering comeuppance to Mac users at long last.
Entertainment: I predict that 2013 is the year for Half-Life 3, and happy geeky orgasms will break out all over the place should this prediction come true. Further, Valve will option rights to Half-Life: the Movie to a production team that promises to hire Jon Favreau as the movie’s director and cast Jesse Spencer as the crowbar-wielding lead character Dr. Gordon Freeman, and Pete Postlethwaite as G-Man, to massive groans. (No, I don’t have any inside information, I’m just pulling it out of the air and yes, I know Valve has said they wanted to do the movie, if at all, on their own digital studio.)
Science: A rocky planet in the temperature zone of its star such that it can maintain water in its liquid state on its surface will be found within 250 light years of our solar system. A human being will be cloned, but not in the United States.
The Blog: We will get a million hits between today and October 31.
Um, Pete Postlethwaite is kind of…err, dead.
Meh, so is Tupac.
(or is he?)
Pfah! Details, details! Why should I let a problem like that get in the way of my fantasy casting?
Dude, this is where a TRUE psychic doubles down! You have to go the full National Enquirer, and add to your prediction that Postlethwaite will rise from the dead, or at least will be found to be still alive, living with Elvis.
By “2013 is the year for Half-Life 3” do you mean Half-Life 3 will actually be released in 2013, or 2013 is when there will be an actual official announcement of some sort about the status? I can see the later, but the former strikes me as far fetched.
I’m not sure I agree with you about whether the cloning will happen or not, but I agree that if it does happen, it won’t be in the US.
There will no no new laws relating to guns at all. There will no be new money put towards treatment of mentally ill people.
Cynic. I hope you are wrong.
I’m thinking no Federal gun laws, (as they won’t get anywhere in the House), but a few states will pass some restrictions. (followed by someone being a suit under Heller).
No money put toward mentally ill people, certainly. But lot of money taken from paying actual teachers and class room programs and put into hyped school security.
I predict a good year for makers of metal detectors and alarm systems and automatic lock-down systems; a move to schools that are more like prisons in their architecture.
I hope you are right about Windows 8. A person that I support got a new computer with Windows 8 on it. I found it annoying and difficult. It’s going to be tough for a person with an intellectual disability to get used to.
Did I ever reveal my predictions for 2012? I got 9/10, and would have had 10/10 if I’d known that Florida would go for Obama.