Paris Hilton is going back to the slammer. Yawn. It was wall-to-wall Paris earlier today as I got ready for work on both Fox News and MSNBC. CNN was better, cutting into the Parismania for occasional coverage of President Bush in Europe and the aftermath of the failed Senate effort at passing comprehensive immigration reform. So, the TV stayed on CNN until that blowhard Jack Cafferty came on and then I was lost.

So, Paris will have to serve more than 3 days in jail. I understand from some of the coverage I did catch that people who violate probation by driving on a suspended license never serve jail time -- except Paris. I just don't have a lot of sympathy for the poor, little, rich girl who has always had everything handed to her.

Let's look at some recent numbers on jail sentences, starting with Paris.

• Paris Hilton. Driving on a suspended license: 45 days in jail.
• Sandy Berger. Theft and destruction of highly classifed documents: 100 hours of community service, $56,905 in fees and fines and two years probation.
• I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. Perjury and obstruction of justice: 30 months in prison and a $250,000 fine.
• Mary Winkler. Voluntary manslaughter for shooting her husband with a shotgun as he slept: 210 days in confinement. Counting time already served, 7 days behind bars.

I don't much care what the Winkler jury thought, but 210 days in jail -- 60 days of which can be spent in a mental institution -- is not enough for killing your husband in cold blood. Try switching the genders and see if you think a husband who murdered his abusive wife would get off with a mere 210 days.

Sometimes the justice system just doesn't work. It's understandable, because it's a human justice system, but that doesn't make the outrageous sentences easier to swallow. Thankfully, harsher sentences can be commuted. As for the light sentences, well, judges bring those sentencing guidelines upon themselves, don't they?