Geller, a British-Israeli psychic, wows audiences across the globe with his mind's telekinetic and telepathic powers: he bends spoons with nothing more than a focused cranium, and he sees the future (all he can say is: "Go back." Ha! Is there a Say Anything fan in the house?)
Anyway, in Washington, a certain politician needs only a rumbling stomach to predict the future. It’s Y2K Al Qaeda-style in the summer of ’07.
Winner: Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff, who, bereft of evidence, pledged his “gut feeling” that Al Qaeda would attack the U.S. this summer. The Houston Chronicle reports on Chertoff’s admission of abdominal prophecy:
"I believe we are entering a period this summer of increased risk," Chertoff told the Chicago Tribune's editorial board in an unusually blunt and frank assessment of America's terror threat level. "Summertime seems to be appealing to them," he said of al-Qaida. "We do worry that they are rebuilding their activities." Still, Chertoff said there are not enough indications of an imminent plot to raise the current threat levels nationwide. And he indicated his remarks were based on "a gut feeling" formed by past seasonal patterns of terrorist attacks, recent al-Qaida statements, and intelligence he did not disclose.
We musn't forget: as Steven Colbert famously said at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Dinner,
"My guts have shit for brains."
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