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Predictions for 2017

My 2016 predictions weren’t perfect, in part because they weren’t crazy enough. Who knew 2016 was going to turn out so looney? So here goes for 2017.

The big Silicon Valley news is that Twitter goes bankrupt because nobody wants to buy them. They announce the news on Twitter but it takes a few days for anybody to notice.
President Trump is outraged by the bankruptcy because his platform for saying ridiculous things is silenced. He asks Vladimir Putin to buy the company.
China continues to expand the illegal “islands” in the South China Sea by dumping all of the

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National Prozac

What this country needs now is a giant dose of Prozac.

It really amazes me how much whining is going on these days. People worry about all kinds of things, the bulk of which are issues that exist only in the imagination of cable news producers. All of this national angst seems to come out in the form of fear. There is fear of a “double dip” recession despite the fact that corporate earnings are breaking records. There is fear of the rise of China, despite the fact that our economy is still 3 times as large. There is fear …