'Idol' Rage

There are a lot of things my mom and I don't agree on -- sushi, death metal and Kellie Pickler, par example. And my mom and I discussed 'Idol' at great length this season. She didn't understand my love for Bucky. I didn't understand how she could think Ace was "just so cute." The arguments got a little heated, but we never came to blows.

Not true for 24-year-old Cory K. Favreau from Plattsburgh, NY (upstate represent!), who was so incensed by his mother's claim that Katherine McPhee would have a successful career despite her 'Idol' loss that he got violent. I know it's totally wrong to laugh at some dude beating his moms, but honestly. Here's how it went down, according to the Plattsburgh Press Republican:

Favreau allegedly stood up, made a malicious comment to his mother and struck her in the head with a sharpened, cross-shaped object attached to a bicycle chain.

Upstate New Yorkers don't buy their weapons, see, they make them. Y'all should have seen the slingshot I made in third grade that launched flesh-eating caterpillars. You can read the rest of the article here, and you can also pop on over to TMZ to see what an 'Idol'-lovin' Mom beater looks like.

I blame Taylor Hicks and his Soul Patrol for this malarkey.