the results show...

Can you hear me now?

Is it possible?  Is it conceivable?  Is it?  Have the Idol producers listened?  Have they heard? 

Last week's outrage over the one-hour bloodfest that was the results show seems to have hit its target.  What was planned as another one-hour sacrifice has been trimmed now to one-half hour, so, hopefully we will be spared the flashbacks, the retrospectives, the idiotic lining up of the condemned only to kill the bystander.  And perhaps they'll simply say so long to the ejected and dejected, rather than forcing them to sing again the song that sank them.

Ah shucks.  Just when I was starting to like the sight of blood and guts.

Maybe this week, we'll get something a bit more compassionate in the way of contestant eliminations.  How about "You're Stupid too!"  "Your mama eats worms!" or the ever-popular "You're ugly!"