malfeasance

I'm in the process of composing my annual predictions for 2010, and as those of you who were around for my last set will know, let's just say that my number of hits won't be as high as the previous year (the previous year was weirdly correct, this one more normally imperfect). This is not a serious problem for me, since every year I include the basic disclaimer that there's absolutely no reason why you should believe that my predictions are worth anything, but I do like to be right better than being wrong ;-). The major thing I screwed up was underestimating how successfully the US…