No Justice, No Paris

Now, listen. Like everyone else I've had my share of fun at Paris Hilton's expense. She's an easy target who continues to make herself easier. And my schadenfreude meter almost burst yesterday reading the AP story about how she went back to jail crying and screaming for her mommy.

"It's not fair!" she screamed in court.

And you know what? She's right.

There are 20,000 prisoners in L.A. County -- most of them serious felons. For anybody else convicted of the kind of thing Hilton got convicted of (DUI and parole violation for driving with a suspended license), she would have either done community service, gone to jail and been immediately released (like Michele Rodriguez from "Lost") or served a maximum of five or six days. The county sherrif explained they have a 10 percent rule for low-level offenses like this. Early releases and home confinement decisions are rutinely handled by the sherrif, not an angry judge.

I'm not saying that's the way it should be. But that's the way it is.

This still is kind of funny. Paris Hilton is a pathetic person with all the advantages in life and none of the skills to live it. She's vapid, snooty, moronic, mental and possibly evil. But to pretend that she is receiving equal treatment under the law ignores the absolute fact that she is being treated extraordinarily harsh just because of her celebrity and a pissed off judge who wants to make an example out of her in the center ring of the international media circus tent.

I'm not going to cry about it. But it isn't justice.