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Paris reminds me of the Proverb: "A woman who is beautiful but lacks discretion is like a gold ring in a pig's snout." So why are we as a society fascinated by this woman and obsessed with her time in jail? Is it because our human nature are unable to turn away from an accident scene or a train wreck? Is it because we somehow expect that her dumb act actually is a facade hiding a shrewd mind underneath? That last expectation should have been dashed by watching Paris' interview on Larry King. Has she learned anything by her jail experience? Well, she would like us to believe she has but all I heard was rhetoric about being a "new woman" and "God giving (her) a second chance" and how she feels like she wants to "make a real difference" in this world.

Does Paris believe she was unjustly jailed? Of course she does. After all, she hardly drinks, she never takes drugs, and anyway, her lawyer told her she could drive to and from work. Does anyone buy this? Apparently. Make no mistake, there are actually people out there that believe she is very relevant and as hard done by in her sentence as say, Nelson Mandela. This lady has been pictured partying over and over, yet she expects us to buy that when she was initially pulled over, she had only had one drink. Really? That must have been one big glass. And about the drugs? I heard Robin Leach say that in the state of "Holly-weird" marijuana is not a drug. So maybe it's not that she was lying so much as that she was just ignorant of the truth. And what exactly did her lawyer tell her? I expect we will never know, but it seems to me that for any reasonable adult, ignorance of the law is never an excuse.

So here we have this person who has failed to accept any responsibility for her actions and yet expects us to believe she has changed through the whole experience. We are expected also to sympathize with her that she was dragged back to court-in handcuffs, mind you-from her "house arrest" at the mansion. The mean old judge sent her back to a place where she actually had to deal with her "claustrophobia" and "panic attacks". Oh, how the tears welled up when we saw her walk (or sashay) through the crowd of photographers toward the arms of her loving mother; it rivaled the return of prisoners of war!

What is the bottom line here? Despite what Paris and her misguided supporters say, she did deserve her sentence and in the real jail as opposed to her affluent home environment (surrounded by her enablers). The judge did the right thing even though it is doubtful Ms. Hilton really will change anything. She is an addict, after all, but her drug is the spotlight. And our society, for whatever reason, will continue to provide her daily fix. "A gold ring in a pig's snout" indeed.

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