This year, there were some things that were surprising ... and not-so-surprising. At the end of 2013, I didn't publish anywhere a list of predictions for this year, so I don't really have a scorecard I can use to gauge my success or failure as a prognosticator and pundit. There's no way to check what I got right and wrong for 2014. But I can talk about what surprised me this year and what did not.