"Cretinization"

British gadfly Christopher Hitchens, in his Slate column “Fighting Words“, weighs in on the Paris Hilton coverage.  I think perhaps his sympathy for the embattled socialite has something to do with his own well-known penchant for heavy drinking in public.

All Paris All the Time

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P.S.  Sorry to do this, but I thought I’d mention that the Republicans, despite defections by a few of their rank, managed to successfully filibuster the Alberto Gonzales no confidence vote in the U.S. Senate yesterday.