American Idol, Plus Extra!

Well, I was almost 1 out of 4. But I changed my mind at the last second to kicking Sanjaya off instead of Rudy, and well, Rudy's gone now. So are Paul Kim, Amy Krebs, and Nichole Tranquillo. I'm quite shocked. America has proven to me that what they're looking for in a musical icon has less to do with musicality than one might originally think when hearing the word 'singer'. Oh well. To quote myself from yesterday, what do I know? America and I, we just don't see eye to eye.

Speaking of not seeing eye to eye with America, I think our entire justice system needs a rehaul. I've been thinking this for years, but when people end up getting sentenced to years in jail for throwing a cup of ice into the car next to them, or arrested for breaking down the door of an apartment with a sword trying to save someone they think is being raped, but being mistaken because it's actually only porn they're hearing through the walls, I get really really really frustrated. Fed up, really. It makes me want to DO something, but then, I remember that the way our 'democracy' is set up, my voice actually DOESN'T count for anything (see Bush vs Gore, 2000), which is another source of my frustration. Our whole government needs a rehaul. But, in my opinion, the only perfect government is one in which God is the leader, or someone who has the authority to speak and act for him, and I just don't see that happening anytime soon. In the meantime (until the Millenium), we can probably at least make some small changes, but our country is so attached to the Constitution that it's not likely to happen. The irony of it is that people uphold the Constitution, and they want to preserve the ideas in it, but at the same time, many of them want to remove the religion from it, which was central to its formation. I'm so blessed to live in this privileged country--I definitely won't argue with that. But I think there is some major improvement that needs to happen.

Sorry to rant. I guess one thought just led to another...