PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

The actors posed for photographs on the red carpet as publicists and security readied for the deluge of stars expected for the show. The red carpet for the first time is tented and air conditioned to provide for some relief from the usually warm temperatures in Los Angeles in September. The temperatures are in the 70s on Sunday and the air conditioning was a welcome respite from recent years of sweltering Emmys red carpets.

—The Washington Post, yesterday.

● I don’t need air conditioning, and neither do you.

—Headline, the Washington Post, August 18, 2016.

Fortunately for all of us, the author of that 2016 has done little to persuade her boss.