Monday, January 14, 2008

The Way of All Flash

Now that many people who can diagnose such things are beginning to suspect the young mother named Britney Spears has a serious mental problem -- not just a series of celebrity bad hair days, but something clinical and dangerous like bipolar disorder -- at what point do people begin to suspect that following her around with cameras all day and slavering after her stories is herding her toward a visible precipice? That it's pretty obvious where this is going to end, and that there is guilt in it?