Occasionally, I get criticized for my prognostication.

[MineralMan]

However, my mother once caught me prognosticating and told me, "It's perfectly normal to do that, but it's something you should do in private."

I was never good at listening to my mother's advice.

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Hmmmm.

Well,if I had listened,hmmm,I would be in deep doo doo.

[gratuitous]

2. Predictions are always risky, especially about the future

Nobody remembers when you're right, nobody forgets when you're wrong (conservative political commentators are excepted).

[el_bryanto]

3. I used to mock Ben Shapiro as a boy prognosticator

Because he wrote an article making fairly wrong predictions about what would happen.

And i also like the idea of a bunch of "Boys Life" style books about a Boy Prognosticator - kind of like Encyclopedia Brown but considerably shorter as he solves the mystery on the first page.

Bryant
http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com