THE ONLY PLACE WHERE RICK SANTORUM KICKED BOB CASEY'S ASS LAST YEAR: The American Association of Political Consultants has announced the winners of the 2007 Pollie Awards, handed out for the best in political communications in 2006 -- tv, radio, internet, print, direct mail, etc.

Among my favorite spots honored: the Jon Tester's "Creating a Buzz", Chris Carney's "Father", Christy Mihos' "Heads Up!" and David Strathairn's work for Kirsten Gillibrand in NY-20.

THERE'S NO CHANCE THEY BRING OUT ROB LOWE FOR ANOTHER DANCE NUMBER IS THERE? Given the strong consensus among Oscarwatchers as to the main categories tomorrow night, what is it that you're hoping to see during the Academy Awards? What would piss you off?

For what it's worth, I'm finally going to try to hook up a signal splitter so we can watch The Race and catch up to the Awards via TiVo. Also, my final Necrology prediction is Robert Altman in first, followed by James Brown over Jack Palance, unless they show Peter Boyle singing "Puttin' on the Ritz," in which case he's at least in second place.

e.t.a. Help! Splitting isn't working -- we've got a TiVo Series 2 DVR and Comcast Digital Cable, and the channels just aren't coming through when I do the split before the cable goes into the cable box. Am I missing something? Otherwise, anyone capable of burning tonight's Race for us on DVD?

YES, YOU CAN EDIT IT YOURSELF SO LONG AS IT'S A REASONABLE INTERPRETATION OF HIS BIOGRAPHY NOT FORBIDDEN BY STATUTE: This morning, Cass Sunstein discovers Wikipedia. In earlier news, Wikipedia discovered Cass Sunstein.

5 Freaky Muppet Videos - 10 Zen Monkeys (a webzine)

ELMO WHISPER IN MY EAR: Via commenter Hawkhill, "5 Freaky Muppet Videos" on YouTube. I will add, as a sixth, a personal favorite -- Norah Jones and Elmo singing "Don't Know Y".

IF YOU SEE ONLY ONE MOVIE THIS YEAR, SEE . . . : Mr. Cosmo and I are going to see our one and only movie of the 2006-07 movie season on Sunday afternoon. Given that we have seen precisely zero of the Oscar-nominated movies that will be featured in that evening's broadcast -- the sole new movie we have seen since the birth of Cosmo Baby this summer is Casino Royale, which we loved -- what should we be going to see?

Law Blog - WSJ.com : Bar Exam, The Movie!

MORE EXCITING THAN WATCHING THE EARTH'S TEMPERATURE GRADUALLY RISE DURING THE COURSE OF A CENTURY? The WSJ Law Blog reports that among the documentary films debuting at SxSW is A Lawyer Walks into a Bar, which chronicles the lives of six wannabe attorneys as they prepared for the California Bar Exam. Directed by the guy who did Word Wars; a/k/a "Spellbound" but with Scrabble. Interested or horrified?

Deadline Hollywood Daily » UPDATE: My 8 Spoilers On Oscar Telecast; Don’t Read If You Want To Stay Surprised

WHEN [NAME REDACTED] MET [NAME REDACTED] MET [NAME REDACTED]: Nikki Finke has Eight Spoilers for Sunday's Oscar telecast. Do not click on the link if you don't want to know if [name redacted] will hand out the Hersholt Humanitarian Award to ex-Paramount mogul Sherry Lansing and that [name redacted] will be singing [name of song redacted].