Yesterday, we saw some seriously misguided folks’ idea of “making a point.” One of the worst parts, is not how shocking it is or the how much damage a couple of idiots can do, but how tragedies like this have become somewhat commonplace. It seems like every couple of months we are killing each other in some horrible way, and the only thing that seems to be different is the town in which people are saying, “I never thought it would happen to me.” If you want to have a chuckle while you watch the coverage, turn on MSNBC, and catch Rev Al Sharpton’s show. He’s funny by himself, but if you imagine him as Tracy Morgan—20 years later, it makes it just slightly more fun. There seems to be a lot speculation about who responsible party might be: anti-government militia types, Saudi Nationals, North Korean karaoke stars, French nihilists, or just the 4^th Jackass movie gone bad. At this point, we don’t’ have a “face of evil” yet„ so we the media has spend countless hours talking to “crime experts’ and interviewing tangentially related folks, like “people who have run marathons.” But the hard truth is, if we really want to stop terrorist bombings. We shouldn’t cover them. I know it sounds weird, and it’s against our instincts, but if no TV stations talked about it, and no papers covered them, and no one took pictures of it, and we all just went about our business…they would loose their appeal as a tactical weapon and no one would do them (just a thought).  Either way, I’m sure it was a group of self-involved, myopic people who thought this action would start some kind of “race war” or be the beginning of the end. But what happened was, the people didn’t rally against the government and we didn’t turn on each other, we helped it each other, in all sorts of ways.  Which is only proves what Anne Frank said many decades ago, “I still Belieb, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.”

     Welcome to the new year! A lot has happened already. The NRA is telling us that we need to arm our child (against each other). Jodie Foster revealed herself to be a bit nuttier than we expected, and a young football player lied about a fake girlfriend, or was duped (which is worse). So before anything else crazy unfolds, I had a premonition as to what will go down this year, and here they are. Remember you read it here first!  

My Predictions for 2013

1. Wikileaks will reveal that Bravo’s “Real Housewives” series is how the government passes information to undercover liaisons. When someone turns over a table, it means “Go time!”

 2. After meeting them several times with his daughters, and citing his fairness and listening skills, President Obama will nominate the Red Wiggle for the Supreme Court.

 3. “Black Friday” becomes a game show on the Spike Network. In announcer voice: “How much do you really want to that 32” flat screen?! Each time you survive a pepper spraying in the face, we take another 5% off!!”

 4. A study will show that “studying things that might cause cancer” causes the most cancer.

 5. Now that hockey lock out is finally over, but there will be no such resolve for the Jai alai and Curling lock outs! (What will we do with all those brooms?)

 6. It will be leaked that within the Fiscal Cliff deal was a provision that funds straw fedoras for all aging rockers to hide balding and look “relevant”; a la “Smash Mouth.”

 7. The popularity of the documentary “Searching for Sugarman,” will launch a wave of new docs looking to see if beloved stars are still alive, the best of them being, “Finding Skeet.”

 8.  Acting opportunities will seriously dry up for Lindsay Lohan, and she will then also star in the porn version of “Liz & Dick” (which has the same name). After that we will find out that Lindsay Lohan died a year ago, and was replaced by a badly made wax figure.