Here's something that will definitely fill your time.  All the people who make "projections" (e.g. legislature, pundits, economists, reporters, commentators, etc.) who make it into our local news buzz and check their accuracy.  I can never fully understand when I talk to people out and about that so and so was saying such and such and when I ask them about the track record of their "source" they have no idea.  All the "projections" about rail, all the projections about the "growth" of our State economy, along those lines.  We keep seeing our local news sources going back to the same names when trying to provide the public w/ some analysis of a situation or event, but I don't think many consumers actually stop and think about how accurate the "experts' " forecasts and predictions have been over time.  Also, a quick reference guide of "newsspeak"; example, the words "consistent with" always bothered me...Is it one way or the other?  Many rely on short term memory and short attention span