I'm in a mood to make grand predictions, so here goes:

I'd vote for Ron Paul if I were voting this time, (this is the first time I'm sitting out the presidential election) but al-Gore will be the next president. Clinton and Obama will keep bitch-fighting right up until the end, making themselves look (even) less presidential. The DNC will offer the presidency to Gore, (who conveniently should have a big environ-mental ad campaign starting any time now, if not already) with the vice-presidency going to whichever of the two comes out of the bitch-fighting looking less the idiot than the other.

We'll get four more years of the same old crap, maybe another war or two, until 2012 rolls around and my next big prediction comes to pass: There is a binary star system in the constellation Sagittarius that is roughly 5,500-6,000 light-years away, and is in the last stages of going supernova. Unfortunately, when that happens, we'll be right in the path of the gamma ray burst, because we're looking dead-on to the pole of the pending supernova.. and gamma-ray bursts (I believe) only come from the poles of a supernova. December 21st, 2012 (the day the Mayan calendar ends and many people think will be the "end time") is the last day of Sagittarius by one zodiac.. which is curious, if you consider the possibility that there was more to astrology, way back when, than just stupid fortune-telling. At any rate, it'll probably kill 50-60% of life on Earth.. and spare us the agony of going through (some of) another election. Nice how that all ties back in, innit?

Mind you, I'm not big on the whole end-times craze. (or astrology, for that matter) I tend to think that's for people of faith, and I have none. I did, however, think that the whole supernova-in-Sagittarius thing was a pretty interesting coincidence.. so I'm making my prediction now, even if I probably won't be around to gloat over being right. (if I am)