Off topic, especially amidst all the awards chatter, but Timothy Noah has an interesting piece up on Slate about that most famous of (alleged) Los Angeles murderers, O.J. Simpson, in advance of Mark Miller’s piece this week in Newsweek regarding the same. The subject: that explosive chapter of the imploded hypothetical confession If I Did It. So… a friend called “Charlie,” ehh? And Noah points out “the lack of subjunctive tense.” Well, sure. The final chapter is yet to be written, but does anyone doubt that it’s going to end badly for this guy? Like, spectacularly badly. Bad fiction-type badly.