big night for the big voice...

Ok... now you can hear it... but I have to warn you, her explanation makes less sense than she did last night...

Over the last few weeks - due to the crazy schedule that I have been having to keep my regular readers have noticed that my consistency in blogging has ebbed and flowed. I stopped blogging about Idol a couple of weeks back and honestly thought that I might be the only one who would miss my musically superior instincts on both what would happen - and reaction to what did. (Please note tongue planted firmly in cheek...)

All that to say I have not stopped following what was happening and perhaps after last week's complete robbery of justice per the performance of the finalists, several of you could take it no longer.

"KEV - WE WANT YOUR PRESCIENT THOUGHTS ON AMERICAN IDOL!"

Alrighty then... I've heard your all-too-kind e-mails and thus return to the Idolblogging.

Tonight the Idols will attempt to do justice to the classic crooner Neil Diamond. But before my thoughts on that let me weigh in on last weeks total injustice...

Jason Castro on any other week would/should have been summarily dismissed. His little girl treatment of "Memories" was an embarrassment to the Idol competition on every level. It is clear to anyone observing now that Castro's wink and a smile to the 13 year old girls across America is working, and as sad as it might sound if Brooke has another tumble tonight - he might be around for at least two more weeks.

Now having said that. One of the cardinal rules of American Idol is that you do NOT forget the lyrics. The judges unilaterally dismiss contestants during Hollywood week for doing so. The assumption moving forward from that time on is that you come to play - every, single, night...

It seems mind boggling to me that Brooke White can survive one more muff. One more stop and start (of which she's had two already) and I certainly think that justice demands that she not forget the words anymore. On the pure merits of American Idol expectations and fairness last week should have been Brooke White's swan song.

The reason that I am convinced she did survive is that while she is by a long stretch not even close to the most talented vocalist American Idol has ever seen, (she's probably EASILY 4th among the ones still left in this year's contestants) one thing is indisputable: She IS perhaps the most likable contestant the contest has ever had.

Just on pure talent alone the final three SHOULD be David Cook (probably odds on favorite at this point) Seyesha Mercado (undoubtedly the best pure singer left in the group) and David Archuletta (the boy version of super-sweet Brooke - but with massively more vocal power).

Something tells me however that Castro and White still have the chance to offset the purity of the contest as many would argue Carly's departure demonstrates from last week alone.

More on it later... but for those of you who have been so kind to say you've missed my thinking on the matter - I hope this tides you over.

Jack and Char over at Reasoned Audacity have the penta-posse fully equipped to take on the wholly own-subsidiary of Planned Parenthood in their town - the local public school.

For six years the American Life League has held its annual "pro-life t-shirt" day a sample of which you see above.

Evidently one of the posse's principals got all indignant and and placed an extra-large order of  snooty with a lil umbrage on the side and attempted to force the "lil Diva" to first remove her shirt, and later attempted to force her to wear it inside out.

Latest news is that the shirt has been returned to its original position/condition.

I had this gut feeling all day yesterday... I repeatedly made inference on Ed Morrissey's show at HotAir yesterday.

Sure appears I was right...

In fact on most things related to the Barack Obama campaign and the fall out of his religious affiliation with the man who now lives in a 20,000 sq ft mansion and enjoying his $10,000,000 slush fund... I have often been the ONLY one who got it right.

And in terms of Obama, I still hold that conditions are proving favorable for him to win the nomination for the Dems, and in terms of McCain's performance - the jury is still out on his ability to beat him...

The sad thing about the Hillary-Wright connection is that Wright HAD to see himself being used like a pawn. Yet he's so desperate to get a little limelight - and trust me good or bad - this is the most he's ever dreamed of - he jumped at the opportunity to appear.

In many ways Wright's desperation makes him appear to still embody the mentality of the plantation slavery he's wanting justice for.

Sad... predictable but sad...

Ok, ok, thank me later... just go get in line before your spot is taken...

There is a LOT of media cackling about Miley Cyrus' apology and pleas of embarrassment today over her racy-implication-preferred pictures slated for Vanity Fair.

Talk radio, the 24 hour news channels, and water coolers in offices across the country are a buzz with whether the fifteen year old means it, or whether its just a way to save face (and business.)

Our own Matt Lewis made some rather significant observations about it this morning adding up to a big, "HUH?"

But Billy Ray and Mrs. Mullet aren't the first parents to be on the scene when their daughter chooses to go over the edge...

Remember DiLoh?

Now one can argue that allowing their 15 year old to go moderately topless with a sheet for a cover up and exposing the back is bad because that minor is looked up to by soooooo many other teenage girls, who undoubtedly will now begin to think showing even more skin is the way to go.

But I think the award for the more damaging parental skills still go to DiLoh, for allowing her 14 year old to be present at her sister's porn shoot.

Anyone that's ever been at a professional photo shoot knows that things get said, jokes get made, etc. If that happens when the subjects are fully clothed or at least in Miley's case - still fully covered, well...?

What kind of moronic parent do you have to be to allow an even more impressionable 14 year old to sit and drink it all in?

Sorry but in the Celebrity Parent Death Match today - loser still goes to DiLoh.

I find it really distasteful when family members air their dirty laundry in the press.  And when the "press" turns out to be a pander-rag to the lobby that promotes homosexual behavior one has to wonder, "is blood thicker than anything these days?"

I've had a number of people drop me notes on Billy Baldwin's recent excerpted interview with OUT magazine. For those who don't know OUT is one of the most widely read homosexual publications in the country. But since there are less than 3% of the population who practice homosexuality anyway it is understandable why so many of you would still not know what it is... I digress.

In the excerpted magazine interview Billy Baldwin is made to look like a total jerk to his younger brother Stephen. Having spent one afternoon with Billy and all of about twenty minutes with Alec I have to tell you that Billy seems to be the one Baldwin brother who is pretty much ready to throw down on a moments' notice.

Having said that there may be some doubt as to whether OUT magazine did quote Billy correctly and in context, and I was encouraged to not form a final opinion until its proven.

PUCKEY!

If Billy Baldwin said the things this article claims he said then he needs to step up to an actually intellectually rigorous setting and debate the silly objections he claims to throw out. And if the magazine is misrepresenting what Billy said - then he should have the stones to stand up, correct the record, and vindicate his brother's reputation.

The one afternoon Billy and I were together - happened to be at Stephen's home. We debated the value of a human life. The life of a person who was not terminally ill - even though Billy had been convinced that this person was - but rather needed limited technological help to breathe and consume fluids. Billy felt it was perfectly within the rights of a judge and a husband to be allowed to execute his wife's life through the cruel act of starvation. And he felt that it was morally ok for that starvation to take place over the course of 21 days. Regardless of the pain inflicted upon the woman, regardless of the fact that she wasn't even sick - this husband's right to murder his wife with a permission slip from a judge is all it took...

And he has the audacity to question Stephen about "civil rights?"

I would invite Billy back to the coffee table, but this time for an honest discussion - not a softball Q&A from an advocacy rag totally devoted to the degeneration of our society.

What do you say Billy? Stephen may have never interned on Capitol Hill like you did... but I've spent a day or two there. In fact at present I'm living here!

It's easy to make your brother the punching bag because you despise the peace, contentment and the real life change that you've seen take place in his life. But it is hard to argue, is it not, that Stephen is a different man today than he was prior to Jesus?

Are you that envious?

You're better than that William, and though you may think that your father would have a distinct opinion of Stephen's commitment... what would he say to your level of disloyalty?