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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	evilsqueakers 2007-06-08 03:02 am UTC (link)
	I wanna bring him home and just squish him to pieces. I love this guy. Seriously. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

kookaburra
2007-06-09 06:15 pm UTC (link)

Also, from what I understand, Judge Sauer used to be very high up in the justice system, but instead of retiring asked to be given lighter duties and ended up in traffic court. That gives me the impression that he really wants to uphold justice (or at least the law) and is committed to doing it well no matter how "unimportant" other people may deem his position to be.

He totally deserves mad schnoogles. And cookies.

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	evilsqueakers 2007-06-09 06:37 pm UTC (link)
	Now, see. He just rocks. I want him to get every single young star in his court and set their ass straight. grins Please? Pretty please? He deserves a whole store's worth of chocolate now. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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