That much more on Paris and Lindsay

They are astonishingly easy to write about: She got drunk. She flashed
her crotch. She is dating him. Insert the requisite names and places,
throw in a picture and pad it out to 200 words. There it is, your
assignment is in your editor’s inbox with little stress, and little
time away from surfing porn or ways to remove stray pubes. Want to go
in depth? Psychiatrists and drug counselors are as common as fake
blonds and background info can be had from a million
cross-corroborating sources via Google. They are likewise easy to read
about. Paris and Lindsay are this century’s Hagar the Horrible. Reading
stories about them requires little effort and little foreknowledge,
hence everybody knows who they are, and everybody is mildly interested
in the latest punchline. As a result, these two attention-whoring
bimbos are…