Elizabeth Holmes was just found guilty on four counts of fraud for lying to investors in her quest to raise money for her company, Theranos. It turned out that her blood-testing technology never worked.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) … has set the middle of the month as his target for changing the filibuster rule that requires 60 votes to pass most legislation. That Schumer has opposed what he now proposes is well-documented for anyone taking the time to do even minimal research, which most of the major media appears unwilling to do.

President Joe Biden, trying to take the edge off our inflationary spiral, has gone after the meat and poultry industries. His target is worthy, but his tools and his aim are lousy.

As 2022 begins, four strategic challenges to the post-World War II international order generate the psychological ambiguity — meaning plain old human fear — that fosters ethnic and sectarian slaughter and seeds the kind of bloody “proxy” wars that escalate into major regional wars.

It is beyond galling to hear these gangsters of democracy — these spoiled brats who attacked the seat of government because, heaven forfend, they lost an election — lauded as avatars of country love. No, they are avatars of cowardice, the fear of demographic change. And love? They love the braying of the fascist, the easy answers of the demagogue, the reasoning of the mob, the justice of fists and force, the powerless silence of the disfavored and despised.

The latest pitch for the Democratic voting agenda is more cynical and detached from reality than ever. We are to believe that the only way to counteract the furies unleashed on Jan. 6 is by imposing same-day voter registration and no-excuse mail voting on the states, ending partisan gerrymandering, and requiring the counting of ballots that arrive up to seven days after Election Day, among other provisions completely irrelevant to events that day or afterward.

Betty White represented the communal America so many yearn to get back. I will always picture her as Rose at that retro kitchen table, saying comforting things to Blanche, Dorothy and Sophia — and sigh.

For too long too many men have escaped accountability for their liaisons with prostitutes and underage girls. While some have faced criminal charges, most appear to have escaped full accountability. When police arrest prostitutes, the “Johns” too often go free, or pay a fine and avoid publicity.

Apart from that, when it came to 2021, my crystal ball was cloudy. (Whose wasn’t?) But it’s clearing. Here, then, are my predictions for 2022. It’s up to readers to guess which ones are offered with tongue in cheek: