Following the example of the Millman Prophecies, only with less perspicacity and more sports, herewith my predictions for 2008:
Politics/World Affairs
Barack Obama and Mitt Romney gain their respective party nominations. Obama wins the general election. There is no October surprise. Bloomberg does not run as a third-party candidate.
The investigation into the destruction of the CIA tapes does result in indictments, but only of minor figures. Bush will pardon anyone implicated before his term runs out (this prediction goes slightly into 2009, yes).
Pakistan eventually gets around to holding elections, and Musharraf wins them, but nobody believes they weren't rigged. U.S. policy continues to vaguely support Musharraf because no one can think of anything else to do, and there is at least one serious cross-border incident involving U.S. forces/missiles that Pakistan has to pretend it didn't know about in advance.
The Israel-Palestinian negotiations grind into nothing. No one is shocked. Olmert and Abbas both become, if possible, more marginalized.
Sports
In football (American), the New England Patriots will continue to irritate the self-righteous and the '72 Dolphins by winning the Super Bowl (over the Dallas Cowboys) and finishing 19-0. And Bill Belichick will still be boring about it.
In football (world), Manchester United will again win the Premier League, Rafa Benitez will be fired from Liverpool, and my team, Tottenham, will not be relegated, but they will also fail to qualify for European play. Barcelona regains the Champions League title. Croatia will impress by reaching the finals of Euro 2008, but they will lose to Italy. Marco Materazzi is not headbutted by anyone.
In baseball, the Yankees eventually acquire Johan Santana, Alex Rodriguez has another MVP year in the face of Yankee fan quasi-disdain, and they still get knocked out of the playoffs. The Cleveland Indians win the World Series over the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Miscellaneous
The writers' strike will drag on into early summer. The directors will reach an agreement with the studios, but it will fail to push the writers into a deal. When the actors are poised to go on strike, the studios will cave.
In spite of its stellar cast, Iron Man is a disappointment. Luckily, The Dark Knight is not at all disappointing.
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Family Life:
Your wife continues to drag herself miserably through her MBA. You continue to encourage her to stick with it, since it affords you long hours of bachelorhood at home alone, eating frozen pizza and playing videogames uninterrupted. She continues to act as if this is some kind of sacrifice on your part.
Like I said, don't hold me to these.
I mean, I may have frozen corn dogs.
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