Gosh, you just can't blame O.J. Simpson.

Oh, you certainly can blame him for robbing and kidnapping two sports memorabilia collectors in Las Vegas with an armed gang of five a year ago, as a jury found him guilty of doing Friday.

And if you're like most people, you can blame him for being a vicious, barbaric, demonic, evil, bloody double murderer for having savagely dissected two human beings to death with a knife -- and then cynically hiding behind his race to purloin an acquittal exactly 13 years ago last Friday, only to further deepen the racial divide in America.

You can even blame him for doing a slapdash detective job of searching for Nicole Brown Simpson's and Ronald Goldman's "real killer." Apparently, judging from Simpson's modus operandi since his acquittal, he had intelligence that the "real killer" was some sort of golfer -- a hacker, maybe? -- because he seems to have concentrated his relentless search for justice on the Best Golf Courses in America.

Yes, feel free to blame him for all that and more.

But you can't blame the Butcher of Brentwood for surmising after his acquittal at the hands of an incompetent prosecution and racially charged jury that he could get away with anything. He had, after all, gotten away with murder. Two of them, to be precise.

How confident was he that he'd get away with another crime? An associate says Simpson was planning on an "acquittal party."

"He's been predicting a hung jury," one close observer said.

Maybe he was planning on hanging them himself.

Thank goodness Simpson couldn't dart and weave his way out of this one, since they had recordings of the incident and its planning.

Too bad Nicole's plaintive 9-1-1 pleas weren't as effective.

But justice is often poetic, and 13 years later Simpson may be headed for prison for the rest of his life anyway.

Sometimes justice is done on God's time frame and not ours.