In the two years since the repeal of DADT, none of the dire predictions pushed by the anti-gay fundamentalist crowd that this would be the end of civilization as we know it have come true, so they're now having to invent problems in order to be able to say "we told you so".
Prediction: Pushing for fourth place.
That mistaken prediction pushed Orlando's rental vacancy rate to 23.6% in the fourth quarter of 2010, second only to Dayton, Ohio, among the nation's 75 largest metropolitan areas surveyed by the U.S. Census Department.
In this sentence we want to speak to the potential utility of such predictions and push them as a direction for exploration.
I trawled through my inbox, scanning literally dozens of emails pushing "predictions" for the coming year.
Prediction: Padres push for playoffs - second in NL West.
First, I want to give users the chance to add to the data by pushing my predictions up or down.
Prediction Mid-table, possibly pushing towards the play-offs.
And also because humans have the power to push predictions forward and give them momentum, enabling subtle footprints to actually become indelible and clear trends.
Friday's end of the world Mayan-style is only the latest in a line that runs from the New Testament, through to today's US evangelicals forever pushing back their predictions a few years at a time.
