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 11:49 pm UTC (link)

“She has fulfilled her obligation,” said Steve Whitmore, the department’s spokesman. “She has paid her debt to society.”

Really? 'Cause I thought when you had a 90-day sentence, you were required to serve at least half that to be considered to have "paid your debt to society." (BTW, I never understood how that was supposed to work anyway, considering we pay for the prisons and their upkeep...shouldn't it be, "She's mooched off us long enough"?)

In conclusion, fail.

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	dez_chan 2007-06-07 11:55 pm UTC (link)
	Doh! I meant 45-day sentence...I was mistaken, anyone else who was an HTV would've gotten 90-days, but they automatically reduced it. My bad. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	lottelita 2007-06-07 11:55 pm UTC (link)
	The only way she could repay her debt to society is to donate every red cent in her possession to charity. /marxism (Reply to this)(Parent)

	makeshyft 2007-06-08 12:23 am UTC (link)
	She has paid her debt to society.” So, by his logic.. "Society" is a ninety-nine cent store. Hunh. (Reply to this)(Parent)

freezer
2007-06-08 03:42 am UTC (link)

Once again, I'll let the folks at What Would Tyler Durden Do? speak for me...

Only the starfuckers who run the LA county sheriffs department would say she was not released early with a straight face.

...By tomorrow, they'll take off the house arrest ankle bracelet and replace it with the Congressional Medal of Valor, and they'll do it in one of those big ceremonies like at the end of Star Wars.

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	dez_chan 2007-06-08 05:19 am UTC (link)
	will not mentally picture Lindsay Lohan as Chewie. WILL NOT. insert Wookie roar Dammit! (Reply to this)(Parent)

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