2012

I have nothing to say about what's going to happen in 2012. But other people aren't so shy! Predictions abound, and they aren't all for the end of the world. From around the 'Net:

Five medical advances:

• Closer to vaccine for cancers.
• Advance in malaria vaccine.
• EPA's mercury limits will prevent 11k deaths.
• Cheaper medicine!
• Easier to choose medical insurance.

European Union crisis:

• 30-40% chance of euro (currency) breaking up.
• 20% of economists predict end of eurozone.
• Recession of 2012. 

American Sports:

• Mark Cuban will not get a baseball team.
• London Olympics will pull 5.5 million viewers.
• Danica Patrick will breathe new life into Nascar.
• Time Warner and the NFL will get the NFL channel up.
• Hockey contracts will be hard-fought, but the players will take to the ice.

From a San Bernadino psychic:

• Unemployment falls to 9.5 percent in the US.
• Prince William and Kate will have a baby boy.
• Tsunami in Hawaii. 
• Wildfires in Canada.
• Gold $2000 per ounce; oil $130 a barrel.

(All predictions subject to the caveat that they may not be fulfilled if the world ends in 2012.)

On a more personal note, I wish everyone a warm and wonderful Year-Change and the best 2012 they can have. Someone phone American Samoa and find out how 2012 looks so far.