Posted by zeugma on July 2, 2007, at 21:33:40
In reply to Paris Hilton Cartoon (giving decadence a bad name), posted by Sigismund on June 29, 2007, at 19:44:15
At least Paris Hilton did jail time.
That proves that in our society, wealth and fame are no substitutes for power.
Incidentally, having just read "A Russian Diary", with its graphic and dismaying portrait pf a backsliding, murderous society, I am surprised that President Bush has emerged from his Kennebunkport parley speaking giddily about the "amazing transformation" Putin has presided over.
"Do I trust him? Yes, I trust him," said Bush of Putin. Bush is in a trustful, merciful mode- I only wish Putin had arrived in Kennebunkport a month earlier, so he could have commuted Paris' jail sentence as well.
Is it possible to give decadence a good name? That very well might have done it.
-z
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