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Wednesday, December 26, 2007 12:00 AM

The year in celebrity scandal

From attention-seeking celebrities to roving nut jobs with automatic weapons to the self-deluded editors of mean-spirited gossip rags, this is the year that media-savvy lunatics took over the asylum.
By Heather Havrilesky

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  • Wednesday, December 26, 2007 06:35 AM

    I keep thinking about "Idiocracy"

    It wasn't the greatest movie, but it sure captures the mood of the moment in our dumbed-down, celebrity worshipping/bashing culture.

    Too bad we're not taking more of an interest in the world, but maybe we just don't want to deal with reality. And who can blame us? Iraq, subprime mortgage meltdown, selling our assets to the highest bidder, the current administration, the next administration (whoever they may be), etc.

    Reading both Perez Hilton and the NY Times isn't such a stretch, really. I do it all the time.

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