Lindsay Lohan not really news

It's fairly apparent she's in real trouble, this time.

I have no enmity against her--none at all. I think she's an attractive young woman with good career opportunities in "show business." I'm not rooting for her to crash and burn, but she's getting to the bottom pretty quickly. Yes, it makes me wonder how much further she could fall (without irreparably harming something very valuable to her--like her life).

I don't see her as another Paris Hilton. Not quite. Paris Hilton is a spoiled, rich, brat with a family name and a desire to always be the center of attention. OK, well, I guess Ms. Lohan is quite a bit like Paris Hilton. Except she has parents who either don't care, or only care about money. She could really benefit from someone who doesn't care if she's rich or famous, and who is not looking to make money off her. Let's be daring: someone who might actually care about her. A little.

Funny that she didn't find someone like that in rehab, but perhaps rehab in Tinseltown isn't quite what it's like in other places. That's too bad. I don't want to see her get hurt, but of course not very many of us have the power to do anything about that. What will be, will be.

Should she go to jail? Maybe, but I don't really see that as an appropriate response to her drug and alcohol use. She's an alcoholic; certainly a drug abuser who has gotten out of control. Am I soft on alcoholics and drug users? No, I just know that her behavior isn't criminal in the same sense that the guy breaking into your house is a criminal. Well, OK, maybe he's a drug addict trying to feed his habit, but Ms. Lohan didn't hold up a 7-Eleven.

Inevitably, the media will follow this story. Many people will literally salivate over the news reports hoping that this person--young, female, pretty, and ostensibly talented--will "get what's coming to her." Schadenfreude, plain and simple. Maybe she will find herself in jail, and it will likely be damaging to her. If she's lucky she will stop what she's doing and sober up. Personally, that's what I hope.