Joel Kotkin is completely full of shit. Never believe a word he says. Futurist, my ass.
 

Here I thought Britney would drive some traffic today and my one comment is about Joel Kotkin. You urbanists are funny.
 

The reason I'm dismissing Britney is because I'm obsessed with the Brandon Davis/Paris Hilton/La Lohan private-parts dispute. The rest of my brain cells are dedicated to babywatch 2006: editions Brangelina and TomKat. And then there's Eurovision.
 

I'll bite:
Britney is completely horrible. The concept that she's married to some trailer-park castoff is strike one, strike two is that she got knocked up by him, and three is that, hey, OOPS she did it again. I used to just be amused by her, now I'm horrified.
 

It's all right saying that here, Brian, but I dare you to make that comment on the World of Britney site. You'll get dog-piled by fans who think stating the obvious about Britney is worse than questioning the war.

Just at random, let's have a look at this picture of Britney at a kids' camp. Some people ventured an opinion that her jeans were riding too low for the occasion, and for that bit of heresy they were duly scolded:

What's the big deal about her pants? Seriously, they do look insanely low but so f***ing what? It's mostly just the shadow caused by the angle she's walking at. Besides, it's a summer camp, are you really going to run around wearing sweats? I don't think so. Teenagers wear pants like that, it's not that big a deal. Seriously, those kids aren't paying that much attention. And even if they are, so what? They will all end up being perverted, jaded nincompoops in the long run anyway, regardless of Britney's "bad influence." People don't remain naive forever, they may as well get used to it early on. HUMANS ARE SEXAUL BEINGS, GET OVER IT
 

I think you kind of blew the righteousness of that rant by mispelling "sexual".
*grin*
 

It ain't me, babe. That third paragraph is a verbatim quote from the Britney site.
 

Ach, sorry. I have colon blindness right now, as you know.
There was me thinking it was a seamless segue-way into today's chimp photo...