So maybe we can all just stop pretending that we know what's going to happen next.

Victor Davis Hanson:

As 2008 comes to a close, almost nothing has turned out as was expected at the beginning of the year - whether we consider oil prices, the war in Iraq, political corruption or the collapse of the U.S. financial system.

We were way off on all of it. Makes you wonder just how much we can depend on our own predictions.