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COMMON CREEPS by Alex Cosper

What's your most confident prediction for 2006? (12/31/05)

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UNKNOWN SKEPTIC: I think all the Enron guys will go to jail along with about 50 other white collar thugs who still don't get it. Eliot Spitzer will be the hero who brings down these thugs and the people of New York will reward him by electing him governor.
JENNIFER: I bet Howard Stern will totally flop on satellite radio and it will teach big egos once and for all that you can only push a burned out old school macho formula so far in the commercial world.
SKULL MADISON: The New World Order will finally come to fruition. Bush critics will be silenced and chopped out of the media. Talk of a one party system will emerge as the Republicans increase their margins in the House and Senate. The issue of torture will be revisited and reconsidered.
GREY DAVIDSON: Arnold Schwarzenegger will be defeated in his re-election bid for the California governorship. He tried to paint a blue state red - which can cause big problems for governors of that state.
WORKER JOE: I predict that after General Motors goes bankrupt, that I'll lose my job for no reason even though my job has nothing to do with that company. They'll just use those headlines as a way to finally get rid of me.
FATHER SULLIVAN: As we approach Armageddon, there will be attempts to combine church and state, and those who support this crusade shall be persecuted. We're already starting to see this happen with Pat Robertson.
COLLEGE STUDENT: People are finally going to wake up from this dumbing of America project that's been going on for awhile.
WOMEN'S RIGHTS ACTIVIST: More women will rise in politics. Hilary will be re-elected Senator of New York. She's just two years away from winning the White House. The old cliche that this is a man's world will simply become nostalgia for social flunkies.
JOHN SKERRY: The Democrats will continue to pose as Republicans, but in the end they will still be demonized for being Democrats. It almost makes you want to just go along with everything Bush says about the war.
OLD MAN WICKER: More pharmaceutical companies will face heavy class action lawsuits for marketing drugs that cause heart attacks. I'm actually on the side of the drug companies as living proof that you can practically live on all their artificial chemicals and not have to worry that it will eventually destroy you.
MADAM OF THE PLANETS: Earth will begin to encounter strange communications with the extra terrestrial. The paranoia surrounding fascism will culminate in the appointment of a galactic court that will decide on the fate of Bush and Cheney.
MOVIE BUFF: You'll be able to download all your favorite movies with some handheld remote that also acts as a phone, answering machine, camera, clock, pager, mp3 player, garage door opener, calculator and anything else that has to do with the digital world. Oh yeah, and it will be voice-activated.
SCIENTIST: I believe that the development of solar energy will rapidly accelerate. Solar panel prices will come down. Solar generators that resolve most of our energy needs will begin to appear as standard household items. Also, the merging of solar power with satellite technology will revolutionize the world in which we live.











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