Idol Gives Back and Displace Me

<p>These articles sum up what I feel about these type of things.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3979%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3979&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,363663,00.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,363663,00.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Good intentions for sure. It's nice and all, but...hollow. More of a chance for most organization and people to feel good about themselves, self-masturbation, etc. Kind of cynical I guess, but whatever.</p>