[hinckley buzzard]

‘The best predictor of someone’s future still yet is that ones past.’

Only if "other things being equal." Which they rarely are, which is why dubious nostrums like this one seldom help predict anything much at all.

[true believer forever]

"dubious nostrums" -- I love that!! Can I use it please? I want to use it in many places... a perfect way to describe a lot of the antinewt pontificating that goes on...

[Ron H.]

Only if "other things being equal." Which they rarely are, which is why dubious nostrums like this one seldom help predict anything much at all.

So you say. I say that's a load of......