And that all continued on this past Wednesday, when I didn’t watch the final episode either. Nor did I feel any compulsion to pay it much heed as a pop culture touchstone. Oh, sure, there would have been a time when I was younger when I probably would have tuned in as you did, but (here’s what’s so great about getting older, for me) I know I don’t have to do anything I don’t want to. Call it snobbery, if you like, but it’s wonderfully liberating.

I suspect your efforts with this were mostly to reinforce that for yourself.

But if Oprah had closed with “Free Bird” I would have sought out the clips online, even though I’m pretty sure the pop culture world would have dismissed it as “it’s been done.”

I’ve run into a few who think Oprah is little less than the Messiah or something. Um, no, she’s just a very smart, business savvy lady who hosts a popular daytime talk show.