Pretend for a moment that you don’t have a TV, you don’t have internet and you certainly don’t spend time reading sites like us that would be interested in this tomfoolery.

Try to hold the idea in your head that you have been living up in the Rocky Mountains off the carcasses of deer that you have killed. You have painstakingly worked your ass off everyday, and you’ve finally found whatever you were looking for and decide to return to society.
You get to a friend’s house, tell them about living in the mountains for awhile, and they turn on the newest American Idol results show, like any television-centric family.

We think that’s the best way to fully enjoy the absurdity from American Idol this week where everyone treated Alaina with kid gloves after she broke out in tears and admitted that she couldn’t sing.

The clear absurdity here is that American Idol tells people they aren’t good enough, then makes them sing the song America hated all over again. Alaina’s cracking is shameful, sure, but she was provoked by the Fox ratings gods in the name of the American Public.

This is what is done in our name these days (about 7 years ago, we went to war in our name, so we guess things are sorta better), and that’s the most absurd aspect.