L'Affaire Paris is the Perfect American Storm

Is the Paris Hilton falling-in-and-out-of-jail-with-you scandalette the best example yet of how craven and inane our media have become, or is it the perfect microcosm of how the American justice system warps in the presence of money?

The answer, of course, is that it's both.

If the Taoists are right and love and hate are different sides of the same coin, then I have at least a roll of quarters about this story, even if mostly they come out tails. Seems appropriate for Paris, I guess.