Thursday, January 08, 2026
More prediction success!
We are one week into the new year and already the Predictions and Prognostications Desk at the Unforeseen Contingencies corporate headquarters has made two successful predictions and is well on the way to a third. The Montana State University Bobcats won the FCS National Championship game over the Illinois State Red Birds, 35-34, in overtime. It was a rough, messy game, with numerous mistakes, many flashes of brilliance, and MSU just barely eking out the victory. Robert Service's line "deaths that just hang by a hair" comes to mind.
If our reader (or readers! dare we hope?) care, the video highlights are here. MSU's victory was made possible by two remarkable, nearly miraculous blocked kicks -- a Red Bird field goal at the end of the fourth quarter and an extra point kick in overtime. Story here.
This might be the first (American) football post ever on Unforeseen Contingencies.
Predictions 5 and 9 are in the bag! Two hits!
But wait, there's more!
We are halfway to success Prediction 4. The increasingly insurrection-y Democrat politicians of Minnesota, Governor Walz, Mayor Frey, and AG Ellis, are pushing the limits. So too the new mayor of Seattle. The moment one of them takes action against federal officers, they'll be arrested and charged. Walz will be, anyway, as he is so deeply involved in all the Somali fraud scandals.
And already Putin's dark fleet is being hounded, and not just by the U.S., either. This doesn't bode well for him.
This is shaping up to be a very good year!
