Britney Sightings

Talk about fiddling while Rome burns. Do the people of this world have nothing better to think about than what Britney Spears is doing? We're at war, the Democrats just gained control of Congress, and I'm still seeing stories on the news about Britney running around NYC without panties. I don't blame this entirely on the media. I blame it mostly on our celebrity worshipping culture that thinks these things are really important.

How many women are barhopping around NYC right now (or anywhere in America for that matter) without panties? How many of them are white trash going through divorces and custody disputes? I'm pretty sure it's not just Britney. I'm equally sure that if the opportunity presented itself, they'd be just as happy to strike a pose for some passing photographer if it would get them their 15 minutes of fame. People have done crazier things. Just watch American Idol. It's just that Britney makes CDs and a lot of money.

The media cares because there's a demand for this kind of banal information. Publicity is publicity even if it's stupid publicity. Maybe if we cared less about what celebrities are doing, saying, and eating for breakfast, aging pop divas wouldn't feel the need to travel to the other side of the planet to snatch little kids away from loving parents behind a ridiculous facade of noblesse oblige just to bolster their floundering images.