As these blindingly insightful premonitions flash by I must share them quickly. Or else I will forget them. I predict:

1) Retiring Seattle Weekly editor Knute "Skip" Berger will assume the helm of an as-yet unlaunched online-only Seattle daily news magazine. Also involved will be former Seattle Weekly publisher David Brewster and former Seattle Mayor Paul Schell. There will be some serious money behind it, and paid staff will include columnists and reporters from the collapsed Seattle Post-Intelligencer; plus a robust array of IT, sales and marketing hires. The publication will eventually be crushed by a conservative competitor.

2) I really like Steve Beren, an energetic and intelligent challenger to U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Tikrit). Unfortunately, he will lose. And Like Fidel Castro in 2009, McDermott will expire in office in early 2016, having clung to his position despite a shifting electorate, largely thanks to lack of a competitive challenger and to an increasingly expensive GOTV operation funded by MoveOn.org and manned by ReConquista activists. A special election will be called.

Greg "Rolling Stone" Nickels will announce he's running for McDermott's seat and that no matter what the outcome, he will not seek re-election the next year for a fourth term as Seattle Mayor. The city council will by then be controlled by a district-elected center-right coalition. It will have made Nickels' life highly unpleasant by exerting heretofore unseen control over municipal employee labor contracts, capital project spending and public-private partnerships; while offloading to developers significant portions of underperforming assets such as Magnuson Park and Seattle Center. Nickels will be challenged for the Seattle congressional seat by former local TV anchorwoman, distinguished civic activist, businesswoman and Republican Susan Hutchinson - who, more than 10 years after a bad political misstep, finally decides to run for something. Putting aside old rivalries, she will hire a cadre of young hotshots who've worked on the campaign staff of third-term U.S. Senator Mike McGavick and who unlike the campaign strategists hired by Nickels, know how to politically exploit not only old school technologies like social networking software and mobile video blogging content delivered to wireless Web-enabled cell phones and PDAs; but who also grok the widespread telepathic instant messaging technology of 2016, and consumer preference chips that more and more individuals choose to have embedded in their bodies. She will win. At the suggestion of domestic policy advisor Robert Ferrigno, President Joseph Lieberman will appoint Nickels as Deputy Assistant Director of the Seattle office of the U.S. office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Just remember you read it all here first. In the comments, feel free to share your own Puget Sound political and online media predictions covering any portion of the next ten years.