{"id":1017,"date":"2007-06-11T16:39:54","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T16:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2007-06-11T16:39:54","modified_gmt":"2007-06-11T16:39:54","slug":"justice_stumbles_but_recovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2007\/06\/11\/justice_stumbles_but_recovers\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Stumbles, But Recovers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, kids, hope you haven&#8217;t missed me too badly during my brief absence from the blogosphere. I&#8217;ve just returned from three days of visiting friends in Sin City. Report to follow, but in the meantime, I offer this visual commentary on the news I missed while I was driving across the Jundland Wastes, er, Nevada:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/leonardpart6.livejournal.com\/349699.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/imgred.com\/http:\/\/i7.photobucket.com\/albums\/y265\/dcornelius\/specialparis.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nYeah, that&#8217;s the ticket. I was fulminating up a good blog-rant last week about this spoiled little twit&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/SHOWBIZ\/TV\/06\/07\/paris.hilton\/index.html\">release<\/a> on account of an &#8220;unspecified medical condition&#8221; (Whiny Bitch Syndrome would be my guess), but I got distracted by real-life issues and didn&#8217;t get to it. The short version is that I was utterly disgusted by the whole deal, that I have no doubt a poor or middle-class person guilty of the exact same crimes wouldn&#8217;t have gotten out of the pokey even a microsecond early, that her &#8220;home confinement&#8221; &#8212; how awful, trapped in a mansion 30 times the size of the average person&#8217;s modest shack! &#8212; is emblematic of this country&#8217;s on-going class war that many people deny exists, and that she should quit her snivelling and just serve her sentence like any other (non-wealthy) citizen would be required to do. I have nothing but contempt for children of privelege who&#8217;ve had the world handed to them on a platter and find it all boring, who contribute nothing to society and arguably <i>harm<\/i> society with their antics, who are famous for no good reason that I can see, and who expect all us commoners to kiss their lily-white (and they are always <i>white<\/i>, aren&#8217;t they?) asses because they were lucky enough to be born with a particular surname. So, needless to say, I was thrilled when public outcry smacked her and the idiot judge who let her out in the head. It&#8217;s so nice to see the public actually showing some outrage about <i>something<\/i>, given how little seems to faze us anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, if you don&#8217;t understand the idiom of the picture above, check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lolcat\">definition of &#8220;LOLcat&#8221;<\/a> followed by the pre-eminent <a href=\"http:\/\/icanhascheezburger.com\/\">distributor<\/a> of same. I don&#8217;t know why I find these silly things so amusing, considering that I barely understand most leetspeak, but I do&#8230; probably because something about cats&#8217; faces lend themselves so well to being made fun of. It&#8217;s the perpetual air of offended dignity, I think.<\/p>\n<p>In Paris&#8217; case, it&#8217;s funny because of her utter lack of dignity&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, kids, hope you haven&#8217;t missed me too badly during my brief absence from the blogosphere. I&#8217;ve just returned from three days of visiting friends in Sin City. Report to follow, but in the meantime, I offer this visual commentary on the news I missed while I was driving across the Jundland Wastes, er, Nevada:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-old-man-throwing-rocks-at-the-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}