How one time you and a friend had joked about it: Just as survivors are voted off the island, celebrities should be voted off the magazine covers, off the airwaves, out of the theatres, out of the public eye, back to the anonymity they came from.

How these decisions should be absolute and irreversible, with elections occurring on a monthly basis, and questions of basic taste being raised and debated on the news each night. All issues of campaign-finance-reform are resolved once and for all in a matter of weeks because people care more about leveling the playing field to oust the latest boy-band than they do about listening to Bill Bradley’s message, even if he did have Jordan’s vote.