Say it isn't so Paula Abdul!

In the headlines - the HEADLINES, you know with stories of a mass shooting/suicide at a PA health club and Bill Clinton's trip to free two journalists from North Korea and three "hikers" in Iraq who strayed in to Iran and were captured possibly being charged with spying (really? Who goes hiking in Iraq?) - I read:

Paula Abdul To Leave
American Idol After 8 Years

And I can only muster a mutter to myself, "Holy crap, that awful show has been on for eight years?"