2016

I don't pretend to be a modern-day Nostradamus, but sometimes the future is so obvious that one can't help but know it.  This is one of those times, unfortunately.  Besides, old Nostro was a fake, couching his predictions in such obscure language that no definitive judgement can be made about their accuracy.  But this prediction is crystal clear:

Sometime in 2016 there will be a mass killing at a mosque in the United States.  And after it happens, Donald Trump and the rest of the Republican political leaders, along with Fox news and the right-wing radio crowd, will mock and insult anyone who dares to suggest their hate-filled rhetoric against Muslims had anything to do with it; instead, they will blame it on Democrats for somehow not identifying and treating the delusional individual who is responsible, and hours after it occurs, the NRA will issue a press release stating that the high-powered, high capacity rifle the shooter used can't be blamed and the only way to have a safer society is to make more of them available.

I really hope I'm wrong about this, but I bet I'm not.

There are no morals more relative than conservative morals, and no hypocrisy quite like conservative hypocrisy.