LORDY, LORDY, HE DID NOT SPECIFY. As if you didn’t have enough reasons to hope or pray there is not a major attack on the United States this year, Pat Robertson offers another: He says God told him there will be one, late in 2007. Unfortunately, though able to specify the time of year, God did not reveal to the good Reverend the nature of the attack. “I’m not necessarily saying it’s going to be nuclear,” Robertson told his “700 Club” audience last night. So, not necessarily, but it just might be nukes.

Robertson’s prediction comes the same week we learned that a quarter of Americans believe Christ will return to the earth at some point in 2007. Suddenly, just three days into 2007, I find myself already longing for 2008 so Robertson and the millenialists can be proved wrong … again.