We'll always have Paris

By Libby

I don't follow celebrity gossip so I barely know who Paris Hilton is, but it's not every day a privileged white girl gets sent back to jail, so it's worth remarking on.

I understand she's been hysterical for days. I hear it's a medical condition. When I was her age, we used to call it spoiled brat. I don't know the medical term for it is now but Dan DiRito diagnoses what's wrong with Paris and those in her social circle.

[T]hey believe that life will accommodate them in the same way they have been accommodated by their parents. This often leads them to disregard society’s rules…assuming they apply to others but not to them.

The problem we face as more of these children enter the real world is that they are not only unprepared to be contributing citizens, they are unwilling to accept the consequences of their actions.

Dan worries about what that means for the future and so do I. The Paris Hiltons and Bush twins and the rest of these entitled class kids will be inheriting the power in a generation or two. How are they going to take responsibility if they don't know the meaning of the word?

That being said, I have to wonder if Paris isn't paying a higher price for her celebrity in a sort of reverse discrimination. I mean, I read this story...

SELMER, Tenn. - A woman who killed her preacher husband with a shotgun blast to the back as he lay in bed was sentenced Friday to three years in prison, but she may end up serving only 60 days in a mental hospital.

Mary Winkler must serve 210 days, or about seven months, of her sentence before she can be released on probation, but she gets credit for the five months she has already spent in jail, Judge Weber McCraw said.

That leaves only two months, and McCraw said up to 60 days of the sentence could be served in a facility where she could receive mental health treatment. That means Winkler may not serve any significant time in prison.

... and I wonder if a Christian preacher's wife can literally get away with murder, whether Paris doesn't deserve less time behind bars after all.

[thanks to the The All Spin ZOne for the link.]