I don't have too much punditry to add to the particulars of
tonight's Oscars, but here's a column I
wrote on the cult of Jon Stewart last year and another
one on how silly it is to get worked up over the Academy
Awards. I will say, however, the one Best Picture contender I saw,
Crash, was just about the most ham-handed bit of
pseudo-sociological foolishness I've ever seen; truly xenophobic in
its paranoid vision of America as the ultimate racist society.
Therefore, I believe Brokeback Mountain can and will be
upset. Carry on.