IS LIBBY STUDYING THE PARIS HILTON MODEL OF HOW TO ESCAPE SERVING PRISON TIME?

Ugly in Pink: free from the bonds of prison, Republican white girl heiress Paris Hilton ends her hunger strike

I used to run a record label that boasted artists like Neil Young, Green Day, Eric Clapton, The Smiths (and then Morrissey), Joni Mitchell, Depeche Mode, Wilco, Alanis Morissette, Fleetwood Mac, Rickie Lee Jones, Enya, Lou Reed... I've been very happy bloggin' away in my retirement and I haven't followed what goes on at my old joint much. After the company was disgraced by the signing of the cultural excrement known as Paris Hilton I tuned out entirely. Now I just follow her career. And today I saw that Shaun Mullen over at The Moderate Voice took a moment out of his analysis of how Paris Hilton's candidates are faring on the campaign trail to wonder why exactly she was allowed out of prison after 5 days.

As everyone but those hundreds of tortured souls rotting in Gitmo surely know by now, the hotel heiress was streeted only five days into her 23-day sentence (already reduced from 45 days) in a celebrity lockup for repeatedly driving drunk.

The reason: Paris couldn’t sleep and had become a sniveling mess. She will serve the rest of her sentence at home with a tracking device attached to her ankle.

The New York Post said she was seen crying after she cracked “under the pressure of prison.”

Hopefully we'll be hearing a chant from the Amen chorus today about the Inside the Beltway version of Paris Hilton: Free Scooter Mandela!

better than LA County-- and there's a stripper's pole in the living room

UPDATE: LIBBY COMMITTEE TRAIL BALLOON

Lobbyist and putative Republican presidential hopeful Fred Thompson and his cohorts on the Free Scooter Mandela Committee are putting forward the horrible idea that Scooter can avoid even the 5 days in the slammer Paris Hilton got if Bush commutes his sentence. The scheme is buried on page 27 of today's Washington Post.


UPDATE: NO STRIPPER POLE FOR PARIS AFTERALL?

The L.A. City Attorney, Rocky Delgadillo, and Superior Court Judge Michael Sauer, the judge who sentenced her (and specifically said she could not serve her time under house arrest) were none to pleased when L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca just went and freed her of his own volition. The sheriff's department has been ordered to deliver her ass back to Sauer's court tomorrow morning at 9am. No new news on Scooter.