Very funny, Shannon. First you pick the day that I devote my deadly serious, all-important Carolina Journal column to the ?American Idol? controversy ? and then proceed to savage those who waste their time on such nonsense.

Then you refer to LaToya Jackson being voted off the show, slyly riffing on the name of the actual contestant, LaToya London. Of course, LaToya Jackson was voted off our collective radar screen a long time ago, proof that the system does, in fact, work.