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Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

In advance of yesterday's recall election, the polling service 538 reported that 57.3% of

Californians wanted Governor Gavin Newsom to remain in office, while 41.5% wanted to remove him.

They were close. 64.2% voted against his recall, while 35.8% voted for his removal.

In advance of Apple's September 14th news event, the Wall Street Journal predicted that

apart from camera improvements, the company would announce only modest upgrades to its iPhone lineup.

They were right as well.

However, last week no one forecasted that Hurricane Nicholas would form Sunday morning in the Gulf of Mexico,

or that it would threaten the Texas Gulf Coast and the deep south.

Nearly 200,000 people in Texas and Louisiana are without power this morning.

The National Hurricane Center is warning of life-threatening flash flooding impacts from the storm.

It turns out, prognostication has always been challenging for finite and fallen humans.

A government document produced in the mid-1960s described what the Washington Post is calling

history's most boneheaded predictions.

It starts in 1486 with the Royal Committee that advised the King and Queen of Spain not to fund

Christopher Columbus's expedition, insisting that there was nothing between Europe and Asia but a

vast featureless ocean. In the mid-19th century, Senator Simon Cameron of Pennsylvania

wondered why Congress was being asked to fund the Smithsonian Institution.

I am tired of all this thing called science, he protested.

The March 1904 issue of Popular Science Monthly proclaimed that airplanes are not to be thought of as commercial carriers.

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