Let’s end the week with It’s a tough game, making predictions. He knows that as well as anybody, except for Our So Krassner has done a wise thing. He’s made his predictions wickedly amusing. Here are 1. Michael Jackson and Kobe Bryant will be cellmates. Let’s end the week with Paul Krassner’s predictions for 2004. He has taken the culture’s pulse for so long and with such accuracy that his prescience should surprise no one. It’s a tough game, making predictions. He knows that as well as anybody, except for Our Maximum Leader, who ought to be eating his words about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-7U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nthe culture’s pulse for so long and with such accuracy that his prescience should surprise no one.
\n<\/P>
\n
\nMaximum Leader, who
\nnow for predicting we’d find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq,
\n
\nsome of them: <\/P>
\n
2. Charles Manson will be
\nreleased on parole and announce that he’s looking forward to spending more time with his
\nfamily.
3. Fidel Castro will come out for term limits.
4. Wal-Mart will move its
\ncorporate headquarters to China.
5. Saddam Hussein will be sentenced to a lifetime of
\ncommunity service.
6. The stunt doubles for Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez will get
\nmarried.
7. The world’s tallest building, to be built at the site of the World Trade Center,
\nwill be sponsored by the Target chain, whose corporate logo of a bulls-eye a few floors below the
\nspire will be visible for miles.
8. The Patriot Act will be expanded to include thought
\ncrimes.
9. The ACLU and PETA will combine forces to fight for the civil liberties of all
\nanimals.
10. Strom Thurmond will be tried posthumously for statutory rape.
11. Jesse
\nJackson and Johnny Cochran will compete against each other in a national poetry slam.
12.
\nBottled water will be imported from Mars.
13. Monica Lewinsky and Paris Hilton will enter
\na convent and become nuns for a reality-tv series.
14. Sen. Joe Lieberman will convert to
\nIslam.
15. God will at last be given credit for creating evolution.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"