If you've read my previous blog entry, you will see that I don't have much respect for reality shows like American Idol because they humiliate and tear down people on national TV for "laughs."  But what happened this week regarding Susan Boyle on this show's precursor (Britain's Got Talent) restores my faith in humanity and clearly sends a message about what is right, good and needed in this world.

Most everyone by now has seen Susan Boyle's face on the news or on YouTube (it's gotten over 20 million hits already) and heard her glorious voice sing "I Dreamed a Dream." In true American Idol fashion, though, she had been paraded out on stage with the express purpose of being demeaned and ridiculed not only by the so-called judges, but by the so-called young,