What goes around, comes around. Whether it is fair or not fair, and I think one of the first things I realized as a kid is that the world is not fair, Paris brought all this on herself. Maybe Nicole Ritchie will join her in the clink soon. Paris's whole persona, particularly on the Simple Life(which I watched a few times, briefly) was a spoiled, rotten, little rich girl who tried to corrupt most of the people she and Nicole met on the Simple Life or just made fun of their "simple lives". I don't know what Paris is like as a person, and I don't really pay attention to what she is doing, it is just that her whole thing, personality, is all about the media. So how can the judge do anything BUT throw her back in jail. Yes, maybe there will be a day where she just goes away...but u know....once she goes away someone else will swoop in and fill the void,

I will just hope that this whole experience might change her behavior......I realize wishful thinking......but it is a good thought to have!!!!!

George Bush is rumored to be considering a package deal: Scooter AND Paris will be pardoned together. Sources within the Administration say, "The two cases share many essentials in terms of issues of equality before the law. It would simply be wrong to pardon one without doing both. And Bush, after all, is nothing if not a defender of the rule of law. He's the 'Defender'."

Oh c'mon -- let's stop trying to make sensitive justifications for our attraction to this story. It's like when I was 12 years old and explained the magazines under my mattress as an interest in "anatomy." Except it's backwards now: I've fallen in with the prudes.

We're not free of this story because we LOVE the way that the bratty Paris is getting a comeuppance. We love the way the coddled Paris has to be uncomfortable. Since we're jealous of her money, that makes the "justice" all the sweeter. We even cross the transom of motherly brittleness and start calling her a "whore," like there's something wrong with that.

Well, I love that whore. :)

won’t be going away because we need her around so much, just like the abusive family needs a misbehaving child, reacting to their dysfunction, to scapegoat and pathologize, and to distract attention from their weakness and failures.

Amanda got it right over at Pandagon. Whatever consequences Paris has earned, and however well or poorly she accepts them, doesn’t explain our fixation, anger and projection.

What we can’t stand is that she’s sexually free and unapologetic about it, and instead of finding the courage to ask ourselves why we can’t be as free as Paris, we punish her for reminding us that we aren’t. That’s a need that will keep her around indefinitely.

...with Paris Hilton being the featured exhibitionist and the media playing the role of the odd little guy in the s/m gear.

Okay, maybe it's a plain old freak show and no one can look away.

HH however does write a very nice article that tries to underneath the shallowness of the "victim" (us and her) and make sense of a post-post-modern world of weird celeb BS.

My theory however is she's a plant by the Bush admin to divert eyes from the real world mess of Iraq, GOP corruption and health care. Functionally that's what Ms. Hilton is doing...and we're biting, hook, line and sinker.

For the sake of arguement, forget for a moment that the perp is Paris Hilton and look at the facts of the case. Here's a defendant who blew a .08. In California, that's the bottom line for DUI. But the defendant gets a "wet reckless" instead. Probably had a damned good lawyer. Part of the punishment for wet reckless (also for DUI) is attendance at a series of classes on drinking and driving (ususlly once a week for 10 or 12 weeks).

This perp blew off the classes altogether. Then this perp was busted twice (or was it thrice?) for driving on a suspended license. Either of those could have resulted in immediate revocation of probation and incarceration.

So here's a question for the perp defenders: how many times can a perp dis the law before a judge gets pissed?

So lets at least be straight on the facts of this case. This perp is NOT in the slam for wet reckless. She's doing time because she disregarded the terms of her probation, THREE TIMES!!!

You can dis Nicole Richie without consequence. You can dis Lindsay Lohan without consequence. You can dis Britney Spears without consequence. But you can't dis the law three times and expect a judge not to toss your ass in the slam for a pretty nice little stretch.

And please, lets quit using the term "prison." There is a huge difference between county jail and prison.

Why won't Salon say that its pages are a "Paris free zone"? I bet you won't get a single complaint. I'll bet you get a Webby.

I don't have a TV, I don't read the tabloids, I don't gossip, and I don't care about Paris Hilton. The only place I find out about her is here, in Salon. I don't always click on Paris-related articles, either. But when I do it is almost always with the hope that THIS time the founder or editor or just good 'ol Heather is declaring, "I'm sorry I went there, and I promise never to do so again."

Surely you don't need to cover the antics of Paris Hilton - it can't be that your audience demands it. Click through is not necessarily a reflection of what people want, demand or prefer - Salon MUST know this by now. Yeah, I clicked on the article - I would have also clicked on: Do Mormons Haver Better Sex? Romney Speaks" and "Greg Brady, Fallen American Icon of Boyish Innocence, On Having Sex With Every Female on "The Brady Bunch" (Even Alice!" and even "Hilary's plastic surgeon reveals all". I have a tolerance for fluff. But then again, I know you wouldn't be forcefeeding me THESE stories and their variants and offshoots for the next 5 years. God knows why you do so with Hilton.

Just put the camera down. Don't write about her. Take the attention away. We really, really, really don't care. And though you say the same, the amount of virtual ink makes methink thou doth protest to much. You MUST care - why else are we forced to stumble on your Paris Hilton stories every couple of weeks.

I am declaring my life a Paris HIlton-free zone. If she is mentioned in conversation I will not react; I may yawn, I may change the topic, I may drift away. Never again will I click through an article with her name or likeness featured. I will not buy a magazine in which she is present - I will scan the pages first, and if she is present, I will write the editors that I regret I can no longer buy their magazine unil they, like me, are Paris-free.