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We warned you about the Clarion's predictions way back. Salt, people, lots of salt. (Heck, we recommend you take our links with salt.) But the debate has been raised editorially, perhaps we should be even more explicit about our prognostication.

Masticating, prognosticating, there is a certain, in our view, semi-wonderful confluence between what we are rooting for, here at the Clarion, and what we are predicting. We know it. Know thyself is only an opening step on a long journey. As yet, despite knowing our bias towards seeing what we wish were true, we can deviate from it no more than minutely. We console ourselves with the power of our ability to control our own destiny. Doesn't much help when predicting professional sports, but doesn't much matter when we're wrong about sports. Does it? Well, a only a smidgen. Give us grief then, as needed.

As to our non-sports, non-pop culture predictions, the preferred recipe is a pinch of salt mixed with these kind of thoughts...

"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee." ---Marian Wright Edelman

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."---Mahatma Gandhi

“The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” --–William James

"The essence of your prayers is the faith you have in them that they will be answered." ---Rebbe Nachman of Breslov

"Vision is a picture of a preferred future."

"Team is those needed for the vision to become a reality."

"Culture is the locus of change."

"Integrity is the congruency of the vision and reality for the leader and the team."

---Lovett H. Weems Jr.

Labels: Predictions, Sayings, thought