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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	lottelita 2007-06-07 11:54 pm UTC (link)
	You must not read Feministe ... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	luthe 2007-06-08 03:55 am UTC (link)
	I think I'm going to be sick. (Reply to this)(Parent)

dragonfangirl
2007-06-08 09:31 am UTC (link)

All I can think is that the guy in that picture is looking remarkably saturnine about things.

I was already pretty much up on the death penalty crisis -- during my teenage years, I was vaguely in support of the death penalty, figuring that there was no moral difference between a life in prison sentence and a death sentence. Then I actually got hold of some real information on the execution (sorry) of the death penalty system, and the vaguely-pro status turned violently-against.'

But the way I look at it, what's happening in Alabama and those other states is clearly and obviously wrong and against both the spirit and the letter of the justice system as it was appointed in the Constitution and other founding documents; so I can still have faith in the justice system of the U.S. as it ought to be, and reject the instances where the justice system fails, if that makes any sense.

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