Let's Prove the Experts Wrong

There were two stories major national stories this year. One captured our hearts, the other our wallets.

The first was Casey Anthony's acquittal. But my legal analyst knew that she'd be acquitted all along because the state filed the wrong charges against her to begin with. "A jury is going to have a hard time giving someone the death penalty without knowing the cause of death," he said, and my legal analyst was right. I don't think that Casey Anthony set out to kill her child; I believe she accidentally did with an overdose of medication, though she wasn't too upset when it happened because it set her free. Regardless of the trial's outcome, she didn't get off scot-free. She was convicted in the court of public opinion and will have to spend years, if not the rest of her life, in hiding.

The other was the economy and the offshoot OWS movement. Although the movement morphed into crime and chaos and a haven for those with questionable hygiene, its intended message was clear. We need to stop the greed and corruption to get this country back on track to where it once was and to where it could be. And the best way to do this is to vote for the saner politicians. The experts are predicting a tumultuous 2012. Let's prove the experts wrong.