All Winners

If this was your first year you are very fortunate. For one thing it means you have only had the addiction for a few months. For another you were treated to the most entertaining year yet. Last season the talent was so bad, FOX had to plant stories about the judges to keep us coming back. This year the judges have been fairly quiet, that is until this past weekend. I guess FOX thought they would lose some of the audience with the exit of Melinda. So today we get a press release from Paula's spokesman. (I want a spokesman).

It seems she tripped while trying not to step on her pet chihuahua. She broke her nose. So now we will all watch just to see her nose. It would have been more entertaining and brought more ratings, if she would have actually stepped on and killed her dog. We could have had the folks at PITA calling her a "dog murderer". Now that would have been good television. But alas we didn't get any dead animals, just tonights final show and a broken nose.

Both contestants deserve to be in the finals. Tonight they provided solid performances. But it was as though they both ran out of energy. They were good, but nothing that made you scream at the TV "Holy s***", it was OK. Better than watching other crap on television.
If I had to guess, I'd say Blake in a close one, but don't listen to me. At the beginning I predicted Jordin to come in fourth and Blake to finish sixth. Congratulations to them both.

Now it's time for us all to go to rehab. American Idol is my drug of choice, but I know many of you are versatile. You may also get your kicks from Dances With the Stars, Survivor, the Bachelor, or any number of the other trashy shows. Hopefully it's not more than one or two.

Here is my annual "pleading with you" message. Stop the madness, if you can. In the next few months we will have the chance to live through something important. "Mitt or Rudi? Obama or Hillary?" When I started writing the blog this year, gasoline was about $2.50 a gallon and there were 256 American soldiers still alive, that are no longer with us. Stop watching life and start participating. Get your fat ass off the couch and start making a difference. On Thursday will it really matter who is the IDOL? Blake or Jordin? No, but in January 2009 it will matter who will lead us. We can all become American Idols, we just need to get involved.

If my 12-step program is successful this summer, this will be my last American Idol blog ever. If not...
Until Next Year - Wise OUT