"Idol"izing

I'm an Idol watcher. I have to confess, I love it. I know it's silly, commercialized, and probably rigged, but I look forward to it every season. They're cutting the first two people from the top 13 tonight. Jorge and Anoop are waiting with baited breath in the sidelines to see which one of them is getting booted tonight. They have to wait through a billion commercials, and a Kelly Clarkson song. It's gotta stink to be them. I'm a little sad they are the bottom two - I have a funny fondness for both of them. It's true they didn't do too well last night, but still...

Here's my Idol question for tonight, though. What's the deal with the single moms this season? Seriously. Maybe I'm super sensitized to it because of my job, but there are two women in the top 13 with kids around the age of four. One is 21 and single, and the other 22 and divorced. I hope America doesn't choose one of them as our next pop icon.