It's All Paris' Fault

You'll notice that we avoided the Paris Hilton update.  Until now. Here's a rather unique angle, courtesy of the Chicago Tribune's Washington Bureau...

Paris and the death of privilege

There is a lot of pain here in the nation's capital over Paris Hilton. She's getting all the attention. And that puts the politicians in this city in a funk. On a day that the defense secretary named a new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a Louisiana congressman pleaded not guilty to corruption charges, no one cared. On a day that the president of the United States got sick at the Group of Eight conference in Germany, no one cared. On a day that Ted Kennedy talked about his plan for [...]

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