To me Beverly does not look like someone who wants to talk in the checkout line. But maybe she would like that. Maybe you have a point.

I thought Nakia was overall stronger than Vickie. But I can't fault Cee Lo for rating them about equally. Then the audience voted fair and square.

I think the Judges have been great television personalities. I have found a new appreciation for Cee Lo's music, especially with Gnarls Barkley and for Christina's voice, and Adam's dry humor. Blake turned me off a bit turning down all but one country artist because they did, his and his girlfriend's songs. He hasn't really recovered from that in my eyes, but he does seem to have been good for the confidence of those two girls.

Javier seems to have the edge in the audience voting, but Vickie an Beverly both have got some votes and Dia has got votes and sold a ton of iTunes downloads.

I found it interesting that 3 of the top 8 finalists and 2 of the top 4 are openly gay. I don't know if that says something specific about the audience of this show or that US youth in general is pretty open minded. I hope it is the latter. But that said, I think that Nakia would have been better off doing a more upbeat rhythm and blues song than that Adam Lambert ode to ego and introspection. I think that Lambert made such a big deal of coming out on American Idol, that its cast a shadow over Nakia's performance and made it a little of a downer for me. I see Nakia sing I want to party. I think he should have done some some Motown or Stax or Sun Records music and kept the party going that he started in doing F*ck you But Cee Lo on the first show.

I can't generally fault Cee Lo's choices of songs and stage shows. It has been very entertaining!