- There are now over 3,500 soldiers who have lost their lives in Iraq.
- "Scooter" Libby has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison for essentially being the fall guy in the Valerie Plame affair, with the bigger fish getting away and Plame's life in danger.
- An American lawyer, currently holed up in a Denver hospital with tuberculosis, endangers countless lives because he chose to ignore the strong hints from government and medical officials that maybe he and his new bride shouldn't be traveling.
But all that is being swept aside, at least on the cable news channels, for earth-shattering news: Paris Hilton--hotel heiress, reality TV personality, and unwitting star of a sex tape--is behind bars.
The hotel heiress was sentenced to 45 days in a Los Angeles county jail for violating her probation in an alcohol-related conviction, with the possibility of getting out in 23 days for good behavior.
After three days, however, Hilton was moved out of jail and back into her home to serve out the rest of her sentence, citing an "undisclosed medical condition". The backlash was swift, with much criticism over the type of justice celebrities and the well-connected receive compared to you and me. Even professional rabble-rouser Rev. Al Sharpton flew out to the West Coast to weigh in on this one.
A judge corrected this potentially embarrassing mistake by ordering Hilton back into jail, and this time serve her full sentence. She was led away in handcuffs, sobbing "It's not fair!"
(To give Hilton the benefit of a doubt for only a moment--and this is just speculation--her "undisclosed medical condition" may be more than just a case of not being willing to do the time. There might be a real problem here.)
Is it just coincidence or just plain karma that Hilton and other well-known party girls such as Lindsay Lohan and Nicole Richie are having problems with the law at the same time, which also have something to do with drinking and driving? They are also risking their lives in other ways that aren't clear to us at the moment.
Let's just say there's not a lot of sympathy for any of them right now.
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