First, I would like to make this abundantly clear - I AM NO FAN OF ASHLEE SIMPSON!

Still, I must ask the question. Is it really necessary to start an online petition for the demise of her career and celebrity? The people who have signed the Stop Ashlee Simpson petition seem to think so. Over 14,000 have signed up in disgust.

Yes, she's not the most talented. Yes, she sounds like a cat with it's tail caught in a paper shredder when she sings live and nothing like on her CD which isn't much of an improvement. Yes, I'd rather have my eyes poked with a hot iron and eat ass-lint than purchase one of her CDs. Yet, I would not sign an online petition against her.

Why, you ask?

I have my reasons:

A) Starting and signing a petition gives her more publicity.

B) There are more important causes that warrant my signature, like granting Major Richard D. Winters a Congressional Medal of Honor.

C) Her career will die on it's own. It's called evolution people!! If she's really all hype and no talent, then the world will chew her up and pass her out the other end in due time. Why not let nature take its course?

The Ashlee Simpsons of this world deserve our pity. Imagine being told your whole life that you're really something special, believing it and then discovering publicly that you're not so special after all (well, to anybody besides friends and family). Ashlee is discovering, if she doesn't know it already, that she sucks. Don't sign her off and don't shed tears for her either. The best you can do is just ignore her, and put her CD out for recycling.