"Paris Hilton spending jail time in medical ward, reading fan mail, chatting with Barbara Walters.... Hilton's fear of prison pix kept her from eating, drinking..."

Wait a second: PARIS CAN READ?!?

I hate it when people talk trash about people who are dead and can no longer defend their selves. Leave the dead (JFK jr.) to rest in peace. Let's talk about the living who are making fools of their selves.

Paris is a joke. George Clooney's comments about her were dead-on.

Paris built her life around living off the media. Now that she got her wish, she wants to drop out of the limelight after she does something monumentally stupid, telling the media to"focus on more important things like the men and women serving our country in Iraq and other places around the world."

I doubt Paris will be so altruistic once she gets out: "Ok, enough about them, more about me!" She never seemed to care about our military service members or world affairs up until now.

What a parasite!

"Frank was arrested in March 2005 on allegations that he had devised a plan to kidnap Letterman's son, lied to investigators and overcharged Letterman for painting work at his ranch."

District Attorneys were unsure of their ability to prosecute Frank on the kidnapping and obstruction of justice charges. Fortunately, Frank's outrageous fee for his painting job sealed the deal.

The Paris thing is hard to have an honest reaction to. She was definitely being a jerk in court both times and I disapprove of basically everything she's done from the DUI to now. But, unlike others who are as jerky or more jerky than her, when she was taken to court sobbing, some paparazzi has his camera shoved in her face so every moron can see it and judge her. That bothers me. But here I am, reading about it :) It's hard to reconcile my disapproval of paparazzi and celeb obsession when I read this blog daily!!!

-Her statement was written by Elliot Mintz (her publicist) and he's doing his job. There's no way in the world Paris knows about Iraq and Afghanistan.

OMG, I know Paris' publicist name; I need a vacation from celebrities.

-Wesley, you got caught just paid the taxes okay.

-Outside of the families, who really cares about Dougray Scott and Clair Forlani?????

"'I used to act dumb,' [Hilton] told Walters in the exclusive phone conversation. "That act is no longer cute.'"

Wait a second: PARIS CAN ACT?!?

You bought the "dumb" part, right?

Does Paris even know where Iraq or Afghanstan is?

It's about time. Eddie's been dragging his feet with this paternity thing.

It was deadbeat motivated Wesley not racial. Had you paid the taxes in the first place they wouldn't have reason to go after you.

Didn't everyone have a chance with Madonna at one point?

Does anyone else find it ironic that between the sex video and the various pictures of her on the internet that display her lack of affinity for panties that she's worried that the guards would take pictures of her on the toilet?

Did she feel that was the one mystery we had left?....

"She spent yesterday heavily sedated..."

Well that's a state I'm sure she's used to.

And then there's this little tidbit:
"Baca said Friday that Hilton's "psychological problems" were worsened by the fact that she was not getting a "particular medication" she normally takes."

Hmmm...so are we to believe Paris has some psych problems? That would explain a lot.

Paris Hilton has got to be one of the more specious characters out there but I think she is running just a smidge ahead of that self-important, disengenious, Al Sharpton. Who appointed him to look in to "the larger issues surrounding the Hilton case"- race & class disparity? He has definitely taken the Jessie Jackson route of inserting himself into whatever is the popular topic of the day.

"I was not eating or sleeping," Paris Hilton told Barbara Walters by telephone. "I was severely depressed and felt as if I was in a cage. I was not myself. It was a horrible experience."

It's jail. Isn't feeling as though you're in a cage kind of the idea? I think it's called a behavior deterrent. And now, of course, she has found religion.

"I have become much more spiritual. God has given me this new chance."

Paris couldn't spell spiritual. And she'll blow this "new chance" just like every other opportunity she's been given to do something productive with her life.

Did anyone catch Sarah Silverman's slash of a joke about Paris during the MTV Movie Awards? Search online for it, try googling their names at the same time and throw MTV into the search string. I'm not sure I can post the joke here, and the look on Paris's face with the punchline cannot be described.

23112, I saw it, I lmao, mainly because I love Sarah Silverman's inappropriate humor, but also because the audiance actually cheered and the look on Paris' face was priceless.

The entire Paris Hilton episode has underlined - for any quaint soul on the planet who still doubts it - that in the infotainment age, celebrity is the coin of the realm. The most obviously catastrophic misfortunes could befall you since God smote Job with the boils. But if you haven't a celebrity on your side, you haven't a hope of being heard. It's a lesson we know all too well at Peace X Peace. Oh, and factor in the varying degrees of celebrity while you're at it. And then there's the level of commitment by your cause's celebrity. You need someone who is not just high on the radar, and wealthy and connected. They better have time and energy on their side. Because the truly stubborn issues of our time are not about to change any time soon. It's not as if the beautiful people haven't mattered before. It's just that right now, if a celebrity takes a shine to your cause, it goes from zero to 60 at Mach 1. Pity the cause that is adopted by well-meaning but unconvincing or poorly informed celebrities. And pity the poor deserving cause even a bit unprepared for its good fortune. All you folks in the world's trouble spots (Burma and the 'Stans in the former Soviet Union, for example), all you who are still waiting for life to return to normal after Katrina, all you who served in Iraq but cannot seem to get your country to care about you, all you impresarios awaiting your celebrity tie-in ..... are you ready if Paris calls?