Uhh... 12.55pm: Here's more dire soothsaying from CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin (video via TPM): This was a train wreck for the Obama administration," he said.
Turnout in local elections, like the ones taking place on May 1st as The Economist went to press, is woefully low (too low to justify the orgy of soothsaying about the next general election that will doubtless ensue).
One or both died about 1540, leaving a tangled legend of sorcery and alchemy, astrology and soothsaying, studies theological and diabolical, necromancy and, indeed, sodomy.
Yet behind this besuited con trick stands predictive mathematics not that different in its day from the soothsaying coups of the number-crunchers now.
The seers, or baru, foretold the future by means of soothsaying, interpreting dreams and visions, and communicating revelations.
She had adopted, as her earliest version of intensity, the period manner: the soothsaying tone of Anne Sexton and her legion of vengeful kinswomen ("Today my meatman turns his trained knife / On veal, your favorite. I pay with my life").
For advice, he turned to what he calls his "supernatural counsels," a private world of divination and soothsaying that has helped him make difficult decisions ever since.
They see soothsaying as a kind of physical phenomenon, related to either the circularity of time or to its illusoriness.
In these and other ways, "Blindness" feels at once honorably serious and way too pleased with its own soothsaying.
Another of the thirteen, FutureMap, "will concentrate on market-based techniques for avoiding surprise and predicting future events" — a sounder approach, ideologically, than regulation-based liberal soothsaying.
As the number and variety of these soothsaying techniques suggest, we have a deep, probably intrinsic desire to know the future.
