Fish-inna-barrel wank of the day
The NY Times newsblog The Lede reports that Paris Hilton is out of jail and under house arrest. Predictably, the comments thread explodes. 690 comments and counting.

My favorite part about this is actually not the comments thread (which is full of all the self-righteous wankery you'd expect, on all sides). It's the Recent Posts sidebar and the comment counts therein:

I find it especially funny, and possibly even a touch ironic, in light of the sheer number of people in the Hilton comments thread ranting about how news is SERIOUS BUSINESS and complaining about the girl getting yet more airtime.

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dez_chan
2007-06-07 11:43 pm UTC (link)

Yeah, they do have med personnel at jails and prisons. They don't usually let you out of jail unless you're in like the terminal stages of some dire disease. "Might get a staph infection" should NOT get you out of jail, not unless they've emptied the goddamn rest of the jail. And even then, she's not in the general population; the odds of her getting it aren't so high.

[/my thoughts on ~~yaoi~~ stupid]

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	lottelita 2007-06-07 11:49 pm UTC (link)
	Terminal blondeness? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	wolfsamurai 2007-06-08 12:35 am UTC (link)
	I would give a spare bodily organ if I could find a way to make stupidity terminal. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	freezer 2007-06-08 03:21 am UTC (link)
	I'd be willing to go as far as a lung. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	herongale 2007-06-08 05:31 am UTC (link)
	It seems to me quite possible that she might be on treatments that are very expensive for conditions undisclosed to us. Not knowing anything about what any of those conditions are, it's hard to know if this is a legitimate medical release versus brilliant lawyering sleight-of-hand, but ya know what? It's wonderful not to care. ♥ (Reply to this)(Parent)

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