Prognostication: Karma!

Moral: no third term, no pandering (er, “campaigning”); no campaigning, no getting your hand bitten off by a rodent:

If Mayor Bloomberg’s pride was wounded — along with his hand — in his encounter with Staten Island Chuck, hizzoner wasn’t letting on this afternoon.

Hours after the borough’s prognosticating groundhog snapped at Bloomberg’s hand during today’s Groundhog Day festivities at the Staten Island Zoo, West Brighton, the mayor laughed off the run-in.

Bloomberg joked at another event later that city residents should rest assured that their mayor is “willing to put himself and his physical well-being in harm’s way to protect them” against what might have been “a terrorist rodent.”

In other news: It will be an early spring.