Future jailbird (photo from here)

I’m unashamdely blogging about Paris Hilton today, yes she’s hugely irrelevant as are the vast majority of the people the paparazzi chase and she represents everything about pop culture that I despise, but this is too rich to go uncommented on. Somehow Ms. Hilton going to jail for a month for driving on a suspended sentence is “a waste of taxpayer’s money.” I’m going to go out on a limb here and assume that if I got caught for a DUI and then caught again driving with a suspended license not once but twice I’d be in jail as well, so why would she think this is unfair? Her excuse for breaking probation was also a classic one, she didn’t know she was on a suspended license. Now I know all of us have those blackout moments when drinking but not being able to remember a DUI?! I guess there’s blonde and then there’s blonde.

Kathy Hilton’s response, which I happened to catch it as ‘breaking news’ while channel surfing, to the sentence was even more amusing. I believe she said something along the lines of “it’s a shameful, shameful day for the Los Angeles police department” (or some other drivel along those lines). For the life of me I can’t figure out how some people can get so divorced from reality. Driving drunk is a cardinal sin over her in the US and isn’t really tolerated like it is back home, so I don’t see how she thinks she’s being singled out.

Oh yeah now there’s an online petition to seek a pardon for her sentence, citing the fact that she is a ‘role model’ and brings “excitement to our otherwise mundane lives”. Riight, the least she could have done is used proper lighting for her breakout hit instead of that freaky pointless night vision crap.

Personally I’d rather sign this petition. How about you?