LIVE NOW: What Lies (Are) Ahead: The Invitational Week 2
Rub your crystal balls and help us build a timeline of events of 2023
October 2022: Liz Truss resigns as prime minister of the United Kingdom after a turbulent term lasting a little under 14 minutes. She is replaced by Rishi Sunak, whose name can be rearranged to spell “Is A Hunk, Sir.” – Dave Barry, from his 2022 Year in Review
February 2023: After a ferocious bidding war, talent agency CAA triumphantly announces the inking of a four-picture deal for the lettuce that outlasted Liz Truss. – Malcolm Fleschner, from his 2023 Year in Preview
We’re already 12 crazy days into 2023, but there’s still a lot of crazy to “predict” for Week 2 of The Invitational, a contest we were doing each year before The Washington Post sent us on our way to The Gene Pool, our new home on Substack, where fellow ex-Postie Gene Weingarten give you the Invite every Thursday in addition to Gene’s twice-weekly online Q&A chat. See this week’s Invitational here, along with classic predictions from our previous contests — including one especially timely one from all the way back in 2011. Then click here for the chat, which includes some tea-spilling about Invitee entries that The Post was censoring. You can comment there live from 1 to 2 Eastern time.
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