Stock Market Forecasts: Total Crapola

"What can you learn from the top performing stocks of 2010?" Since that headline is in USA Today, the answer is automatically "nothing." The bigger question: can we learn anything from any stock market forecast, at all?
What have we learned here? Forecasts are either so vague that they're not useful, or they're…Luke Russert Strongly Denies Water Is Wet
In your undeserved Tuesday media column: Luke Russert speaks unconvincingly, sports columnists issue predictions unwisely, NYT ad revenue descends gently, and a PR guy threatens a journalist. Jokingly!
[Photo: Getty]14 Things from Back to the Future II That Actually Came True, and 5 That Haven't... Yet
Five years from now, Marty McFly will show up in Hill Valley to save his kids. We wanted to see just how prophetic Zemeckis was in 1989, when he designed Hill Valley: 2015. Find out after the jump!
Check out the left sidebar of the newspaper on the right, it says that a pitcher has been suspended for…The Future of Magazines Is Squinty
In your wondrous Wednesday media column: a mobile phone-focused magazine launch, a J-school's magical new fee, Stefano Tonchi talks trash, a sluggish growth forecast, and Northeast recruiting explained.
[Pic ]Why I Can Already Tell Who Wins Project Runway
Last night, we met the contestants on the new season of Project Runway. At first, I was tied between who I wanted to win: Do I love the awkwardly funny, Puerto Rican, Casanova? Or the 50-year-old Peach? Decision inside.
Mani the Fortunetelling Parakeet Picks Netherlands in World Cup Final
Paul the Psychic Octopus has some competition—a 13-year-old Singaporean parakeet named Mani has picked the Netherlands to beat Spain in the World Cup championship game on Sunday. Mani was right about the quarterfinals and Spain beating Germany.
BP Oil: Coming Soon to the East Coast!
East Coast: Jealous of all that free oil Louisiana is getting? No worries! The National Center for Atmospheric Research says that the huge oil slick from the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe could hit the East Coast in a matter of weeks.
Michele Bachmann Predicts Future, Calls Obama 'Anti-American' Again
Many years ago (in 2008), Representative Michele Bachmann (R-Shutter Island) claimed that Chris Matthews tricked her into saying that Barack Obama "may have anti-American views." Chris must've infiltrated the closed-press anti-abortion fundraiser she attended Wednesday, because guess what she said.
The Ex-Factor Battle: Breaking Down the James Cameron-Kathryn Bigelow Oscar DeathMatch
The ex-wife of Avatar director James Cameron, Kathryn Bigelow, won last night's big Directors Guild award for The Hurt Locker. As such, the Explosive Exes Oscar Deathmatch is basically on. Who "should" win? Who will win? And what're bookies saying?
Sandra Bullock Could Win an Oscar, and other Post-Golden Globes Predictions
So those Golden Globes guesses we made? Um, not so accurate! As we watched Sandra Bullock collect an award and Downey Jr. sweep in there for a win last night, we started thinking: WTF does this mean for the Oscars?
2010 Election Preview: It Will Probably Not Actually Be That Bad
Democrats will lose two or three Senate seats. Like North Dakota. But they will also maybe pick up a Republican seat or two. That is the state of the Democratic catastrophe you keep reading about.
What Your Favorite TV Shows Will Be Like in 3-D
The future is now: Television is going 3-D! According to the LA Times, the Discovery Channel and ESPN are launching 24/7 3-D channels in the near future. But what will today's shows be like in 3-D? We have the answer!
The Crystal Ball: 2010 Revealed!
Lots of important stuff happened in 2009. A bunch of famous people died. A bunch of banks almost died, but then Washington stepped in to make sure that Wall Street's way of life will be preserved forever. Swine flu came along and freaked everyone out (not to mention briefly endangered the air kiss). A…
