I don’t watch the Oscars any year, so my missing it this year does not represent any form of boycott. And now that you know I didn’t watch it, please allow me to indulge myself by commenting on something about which I have no first-hand knowledge. (Isn’t that a requirement for blogging?)

From what I’ve read, the Academy Awards ceremony was light on the now-expected political lectures (George Clooney’s self-back-patting seems to be the one mild exception). Even the slate of winners was less political than some people—including me—predicted.

I was way off.

Well, I’ve learned my lesson. (No I haven’t.) I will no longer pull predictions out of thin air and present them as impending fact. (Yes I will; I just can’t help myself.) Next year, I will make no Oscar predictions. (I might.) And if I do, by then, nobody will remember this pledge. (Damn. I forgot this post will be permalinked.)