Libertarian Lew Rockwell has a serious problem with reality. Just as crushing a cockroach with your foot is not the equivalent of slaughtering millions of people in the name of communism, Paris Hilton's 45 days in jail doesn't make her Jesus Christ.

Everybody is making fun of Paris Hilton for not wanting to go to jail. But why should she? Why should she or anyone spend 45 days in one of these socialist hells for the crime of driving her car without a piece of government paper? (Link via Digg.)

In all the contemporary celebration of jails, torture, and capital punishment, few remember that Jesus Christ was a prisoner. So was St. John the Baptist, St. Peter, and St. Paul. Says Jack Miles: "Christianity is a religion founded by men in deep trouble with the law, men familiar with the inside of prisons."

Clue-by-four anyone?