A couple of days ago, I was making supper. I paused, turned to my wife, and said “Am I the only person in the country who feels sorry for Paris Hilton?”

My wife paused, reflecting. “Yes,” she replied.

Well, it’s not very often I get to do this, but today I get to prove my wife wrong. I just finished Christopher Hitchen’s article on Paris Hilton, and he nails it right on the head:

At some point toward the middle of last Friday, it seemed to me, one was being made a spectator to a small but important injustice. Those gloating and jeering headlines, showing a tearful child being hauled back to jail, had the effect of making me feel sick. So, you finally got the kid to weep on camera? Are you happy now?

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Hilton is legally an adult but the treatment she is receiving stinks—indeed it reeks—of whatever horrible, buried, vicarious impulse underlies kiddie porn and child abuse.

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