Once again, one of the people I didn't put in my bottom three gets ousted from American Idol, as Charles got the heave-ho over more deserving aural criminals. Julia made the bottom three (again), and Corey actually wound up there, too. As in college bowl, I should listen to my instincts more often.

Got to hear Kelly's song from the movie on tape, and it's not very good. I'm sure the recorded version will get the appropriate dose of "studio magic." Her new album comes out on April 15, and apparently they've not chosen a single yet. They may want to do something about that.

As far as that other thing that's going on, from a media standpoint, I am shockingly finding myself watching more Fox News Channel than CNN or MSNBC, mostly because they had more interesting filler (especially this morning). None of the morning talking heads are especially welcome (and the Fox ones are really pretty bad, to the point of saying something like "we've fired at them, now they're firing back at us" as insightful analysis), but Fox did seem to at least present new stuff, and not just think that because someone's in the Middle East that we want to hear them give the same news about the initial strike again. Though Brian Williams in a gas mask was alternately scary and funny.

If you do get a chance to get to the CNN website, check out the War Tracker. Two things stood out:

1. The map was created using stuff from Curious Software. Fitting.
2. The map legend has a listing under "extra" for explosions. So that's what that flame-looking thing is!

And what happened to the cool military operation names? "Iraqi Freedom"? "Liberty Shield"? A little on the nose, don't you think? Another open contest for the Blogalicious readers: come up with more entertaining operation names for the war and the domestic protection scheme. Perhaps I can even cross-reference them with Madonna's kids books, which I have to post. Maybe tomorrow.