Just how replaceable ARE “American Idol” judges?  According to “Idol” champ Taylor Hicks … SUPER DUPER REPLACEABLE.

Taylor was out in L.A. on Friday when our photog asked the season five winner the only interesting thing left to ask about “Idol” … is it time to replace ALL the judges?

Randy Jackson — the last remaining original judge – made his exit after the season finale, and it’s been reported that newbie judges Nicki Minaj, Mariah Carey and Keith Urban are all on the chopping block.

But Taylor is unfazed by the “A.I” shake up and believes the “revolving door” of judges COULD be a way to save the slowly dying show.

And in case you forgot who Taylor is, here you go:

DENVER — A warning from police at the University of Denver Friday. They’re investigating multiple reports women may have been given date rape drugs last Sunday.

Three incidents happening near the DU campus, somewhere along a seven-block stretch, from the 2000 to 2700 block of S. University Blvd.

Two DU students hit a couple of bars along S. University last Sunday about 9:40 p.m. But they don’t know what hit them.

“Local bars were potentially having issues with date rape drugs,” says Gillian Kaag, DU psychologist, who counsels victims of sexual assault.

The two women become separated.

One wakes up in an unfamiliar building with no memory of how she got there. Police say it’s unclear where the other girl awoke. Both think they were drugged, but not sexually assaulted.

Denver Police say a third student reported to them possibly being drugged near campus, but they’re unsure where.

“It makes me angry but it also motivates me to prevent this from happening, to increase awareness and put more energy into prevention efforts.”

Some of that awareness comes through campus-wide email alerts. “I got it this morning and I thought how terrible and I’m happy to be taking this self-defense class,” says DU graduate student Laura Jagla.

Some of the prevention is through a program called rape aggression defense or RAD.

The women’s self-defense class teaches women how to survive danger — but also how to avoid it altogether.

They tell women to never lose control of their drink.

“Most drugs they’re enhanced so much, most of the time you ingest these pills, through drinks, they’re tasteless, there’s no smell,” says campus police officer Sgt. Doug Hasty.

It’s a lesson most women on campus already know.

“When I do go out, I keep my drink with me, I don’t leave it somewhere. I don’t accept drinks from guys,” says DU grad Jillian Neilson.

It can be a vulnerable time for students on their own for the very first time. But DU is teaching them how to fight back.

Some say students have to be smarter.

“Part of it is, you’re in the moment, having fun but I think lot falls on the girl’s shoulder too be more a little more aware, a little more smart,” says Neilson.

Police can’t confirm that any of the women were drugged because none of them went to the hospital to be tested.

One man has a suggestion to solve socially-awkward men’s dating woes: Institute a government program which would pay women to go on dates with them.

This is evidently not a joke. The blog “governmentsgetgirlfriends” is dedicated to discussing the issues of “incel” men (short for “involuntary celibacy”). According to the anonymous author of the blog, who says that he identified as incel from age 14 to 24, being involuntarily celibate means:

… chronic near-total or total absence in a person’s sexuality of intimate relationships or sexual intercourse that is occurring for reasons other than voluntary celibacy, asexuality, antisexualism, or sexual abstinence. It is the psycho-social opposite of having a sex life. Incel people, despite being open to sexual intimacy and potential romance with another person and also making active, repeated efforts towards such an end, cannot cause any such end(s) to occur with any significant degree of regularity — or even at all.

He goes on to suggest that governments fund programs in which women apply and are paid for going on blind dates with these socially-crippled men. (Unclear what socially anxious gay men or women are supposed to do.) “Women would freely apply for such program, as would incel men. Every woman would have a limit of 30 dates,” the blog explains. “If she doesn’t find a suitable partner during those 30 days she will be fired to prevent scammers — however, she would be paid the full sum, as would a woman who finds a partner during one of these 30 dates.”

Some of the commenters on “governmentsgetgirlfriends” seem understandably skeptical about the suggestion — especially since it comes from a man who proclaims that he has “called some women on Tumblr b*tches, cunts and other names [but] that has nothing to do with misogyny.” (Right.)

One commenter, helly, contends that the program would be insulting to both men and women. A male commenter, Johnny, expressed that this man’s inability to interact with women might have more to do with his expectations of women and less to do with his awkwardness. He wrote:

Is…. Is this a joke?? I’m fat, pimply, out of shape, a WOW nerd and not to mention shy and even I can EASILY find women willing to have sex with me. (Yes, FOR FREE.) Some guys seem to believe that they’re entitled to any woman they want, at any time. Doesn’t work that way … Try not being a self-centered jerk.

Social anxiety is a real mental health issue that can cripple both men and women’s romantic lives, and those who struggle with it are certainly deserving of help and compassion. This scheme isn’t the answer. The dating market can be bleak enough without introducing monetary incentives and the sexual expectations that often come along with them. How about some good ole therapy, the kind that addresses the source of the anxiety, doesn’t teach that women are sexual service providers and doesn’t suggest that anyone is “entitled” to sex or romantic love?

So what do you think? What’s the best way to support men and women with these sort of disorders?

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Date a boy who travels. Date a boy who treasures experience over toys, a hand-woven bracelet over a Rolex. Date the boy who scoffs when he hears the words, “vacation,” “all-inclusive” or “resort.” Date a boy who travels because he’s not blinded by a single goal but enlivened by many.

You might find him in an airport or at a book store browsing the travel guides — although he “only uses them for reference.”

You’ll know it’s him because when you peek at his computer screen his background will be a scenic splendor of rolling hills, mountains or prayer flags. His Facebook friend count will be over-the-roof and his wall will be plastered with the broken English ‘miss-you’ of friends he met along the way. When he travels he makes lifelong friends in an hour. And although contact with these friends is sporadic and may be far-between his bonds are unmessable and if he wanted he could couch surf the world… again.

Buy him a beer. Maybe the same brand that he wears on the singlet under his plaid shirt, unable to truly let go. Once a traveller gets home people rarely listen to his stories. So listen to him. Allow him to paint a picture that brings you into his world. He might talk fast and miss small details because he’s so excited to be heard. Bask in his enthusiasm. Want it for yourself.

He’ll squeak like an excited toddler when his latest issue of National Geographic arrives in the mail. Then he’ll grow quiet, engrossed, until he finishes his analysis of every photo, every adventure. In his mind he’ll insert himself in these pictures. He’ll pass the issue on to you and grill you about your dreams and competitively ask about the craziest thing you’ve ever done. Tell him. And know that he’ll probably win. And if by chance you win, know that his next lot in life will be to out do you. But then he’ll say, “Maybe we can do it together.”

Date the boy who talks of distant places and whose hands have explored the stone relics of ancient civilizations and whose mind has imagined those hands carving, chiseling, painting the wonders of the world. And when he talks it’s as if he’s reliving it with you. You can almost hear his heart racing. You can almost feel the adrenaline ramped up by the moment. You feel it passing through his synapsis, a feast to his eyes entering through those tiny oracles of experience that we call pupils, digesting rapidly through his veins, manifesting into his nervous system, transforming and altering his worldview like a reverse trauma and finally passing but forever changing the colors of his sight. (Unless he’s Karl Pilkington.) You will want this too.

Date a boy who’s lived out of a backpack because he lives happily with less. A boy who’s travelled has seen poverty and dined with those who live in small shanties with no running water, and yet welcome strangers with greater hospitality than the rich. And because he’s seen this he’s seen how a life without luxury can mean a life fueled by relationships and family rather than a life that fuels fancy cars and ego. He’s experienced different ways of being, respects alternative religions and he looks at the world with the eyes of a five-year-old, curious and hungry. Your dad will be happy too because he’s good with money and knows how to budget.

This boy relishes home; the comfort of a duvet, the safety stirred in a mom-cooked meal, the easy conversation of childhood friends and the immaculate glory of the flush-toilet. Although fiercely independent, he has had time to reflect on himself and his relationships. Despite his wanderlust he knows and appreciates his ties to home. He has had a chance to miss and be missed. Because of this he also knows a thing or two about goodbyes. He knows the overwhelming uncertainty of leaving the comforts of home, the indefinite see-you-laters at the departure gates and yet he fearlessly goes into the unknown because he knows the feeling of return. And that the I’ve-missed-you-hug is the best type of hug in the whole world. He also knows that goodbyes are just prolonged see-you-laters and that ‘hello’ is only as far away as the nearest internet cafe.

Don’t hold onto this boy. Let this boy go and go with him. If you haven’t travelled, he will open your eyes to a world beyond the news and popular perception. He will open your dreams to possibility and reality. He will calm your nerves when you’re about to miss a flight or when your rental blows a flat because he knows the journey is the adventure. He will make light of the unsavory noises you make when you — and you will — get food poisoning. He will make you laugh through the discomfort all while dabbing your forehead with a cold cloth and nursing you with bottled water. He will make you feel like you’re home.

When you see something beautiful he will hold your hand in silence, in awe the history of where his feet stand and the fact that you’re with him.

He will live in every moment with you because this is how he lives his life. He understands that happiness is no more than a string of moments that displace neutrality and he is determined to tie as many of these strings together as he can. He also understands your need to live for yourself and that you have a bucket list of your own. Understand his. Understand that your goals may at some points differ but that independence is the cornerstone of a healthy relationship when it’s mutually respected. You may lose him for a bit but he will always come home bearing a new story and a souvenir he picked up because it reminded him of you, like it was made for you and because he missed you. You might be compelled to do the same. Make sure that independence is on your bucket list and make sure it’s checked. Independence will keep your relationship fresh and exciting and when you’re together again it will forge a bond of unbreakable trust.

He’ll propose when you’ve breached your comfort-zone, whether it is a fear like skydiving or swimming with sharks or sitting next to the smelly person on an overcrowded bus. It won’t be with a diamond ring but with a token from a native culture or inspired by nature, like the penguin and the pebble.

You will get married somewhere unassumed, surrounded by a select few in a moment constructed to celebrate venturing into the unknown together again. Marry the boy who’s travelled and together you will make the whole world your home. Your honeymoon will not be forgotten to a buffet dinner and all-you-can-drink beach bars, but will be remembered in the triumphant photographs at the top of Kilimanjaro and memorialized in the rewarding ache of muscles at the end of a long days hike.

When you’re ready you will have children that have the names of the characters you met on your journeys, the foreign names of people who dug a special place in your heart if only for a few days. Perhaps you will live in another country and your children will learn of language and customs that open their minds from the very start, leaving no room for prejudice. He will introduce them to the life of Hemingway, the journey of Santiago, and empower them to live even bigger than both of you.

Marry a boy who travels and he’ll teach your children the beauty of a single stone, the history of the Incas and he will instill in them the bravery of possibility. He will explain to them that masking opportunity there is fear. He will teach them to concur it.

And when you’re old you’ll sit with your grandchildren pouring over your photo albums and chest of worldly treasures while they too insert themselves into your photographs, sparked by the beauty of the world and inspired by your life in it.

Find a boy who travels because you deserve a life of adventure and possibility. You deserve to live light and embrace simplicity. You deserve to look at life through the eyes of youth and with your arms wide open. Because this is where you will find joy. And better, you will find joy together. And if you can’t find him, travel. Go. Embrace it. Explore the world for yourself because dreams are the stuff reality is made from.

Inspired by the work of Charles Warnke (You Should Date An Illiterate Girl) and Rosemarie Urquico (Date A Girl Who Reads).

Originally published on Where Are My Heels.