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Oct. 29 2009 - 5:38 am | 255 views | 1 recommendation | 3 comments

Gore Vidal is a pretty funny guy

…who’s been getting just about everything wrong most of the time for the past sixty years, and apparently still is. His track record of predictions is woefully low-average. You can always get a few hits being relentlessly cynical, because things really are pretty ridiculous most of the time. But the things is, most people actually do care how things turn out. So if you’re a wit and bon vivant who doesn’t care about anything, you’ll generally get them quite wrong.

 
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    10:57 am on 10/29/09
    tylookwell
    tylookwell

    “Mark my words. He will leave office the most unpopular president in history. The junta has done too much wreckage.”

    Gore Vidal, 2002.

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    5:04 pm on 10/29/09
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    2:14 pm on 10/30/09
    libtree09
    libtree09

    Who the hell read Vidal for his predictions?

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I've reported from Vietnam since 2003. I'm now the Hanoi correspondent for the German-based, English-language wire service Deutsche Presse-Agentur, and was previously a Hanoi-based stringer for the Boston Globe and for Voice of America. Before that I reported from West Africa, and before that from the Netherlands; my articles have appeared in the Washington Post, the Nation, the New York Times Magazine and the New York Times. I've got a thing for languages, and have picked up Russian, French, Dutch and Vietnamese. I used to write scripts for the children's cartoon shows "Arthur", "Doug", and a few others. I got a degree in interactive telecommunications back when most people had never sent an email. In April 1991 I predicted the USSR would collapse into its constituent republics and that Boris Yeltsin would become president of Russia. Since then most of my predictions have been rather less accurate, so it was probably a fluke.

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