It’s that time of year again. The time of year when everyone and their dog waxes nostalgic about all the shit nobody cares about from the year past, and stupidly predicts the next year in the grim knowledge that when the next New Year comes along, nobody will remember that the dumbass predicted a bunch of foolish shit that turned out to be complete and utter balderdash.
I might as well go ahead and do it anyway. Just like I did last year (yes, a lot of this was pasted from last year’s final chapter).
Some of these links go to /. (these would be old stuff), S/N, mcgrewbooks.com, or mcgrew.info. As usual, first: the yearly index:
Journals:
Random Scribblings
the Paxil Diaries
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
Articles:
The Tool of the Rich
Illinois Weed
There’s No Such Thing as a self-made Man
Gasoline Tax
How To Record Music From the Internet
What Went Wrong in Afghanistan?
Why I Don’t Write Dystopian SF
How to Be a Vulcan
Why the National Anthem Should Be Changed
Dear President Biden
Dear Governor Pritzker,
The Horrible Reason Most Professional Sports Players Are Black
Words
Song
Welcome To the Jingle
Seventy Six Broke Bones
Last years’ stupid predictions (and more):
I predicted that I would publish a book, and I released The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. This year I'm predicting that I will have another volume of Random Scribblings; all it lacks as it stands is a table of contents and cover art.
I predicted that the monster would be banished on January 20 but the son of a bitch just won’t fucking go away! I just don’t get it, he lost both the House and the Senate, never won the popular vote once, “served” a single term (if you can call it serving), but his party is still at his beck and call. I figured it out-the Republicans realized that America hates its policies and can’t win an election without Trump’s racist base. I’d like to predict that the Trumpian candidates all lose next year, but they probably won’t so I won’t predict at all.
But I’ll also hang on to most of last year’s predictions.
Someone will die. Maybe you, maybe me. Not necessarily anybody I know... we can only hope.
SETI will find no sign of intelligent life. Not even on Earth.
The Pirate Party won’t make inroads in the US. I hope I’m wrong about that one.
US politicians will continue to be wholly owned by the corporations.
I’ll still be a nerd.
Technophobic fashionista jocks will troll slashdot (but not S/N). I have no idea if that one or the following held up, anybody been there lately?
Microsoft will continue sucking.
The pandemic will continue plagueing us.
Happy New Year! Ready for another trip around the sun?
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