Lindsay Lohan Goes Free
Lindsay finishes sentence - she's had longer hangovers!
Those who were hoping that Lindsay Lohan might be getting a major dose of justice might be in for a major disappointment. The actress was recently incarcerated in Lynnwood Rehabilitation Facility for violation of her probation. The probation stems back to a 2007 incident involving a car and intoxicants. The powers that be cut her some slack on that, and ordered her into an alcohol awareness program. Lindsay is already pretty alcohol aware, and so decided to skip most of the program. Perhaps she was waiting until they got to the sobriety awareness part?Anyway Lindsay's continued defiance lead to more court dates, more recommended 12 step programs, a scram bracelet - the newest rogue celebrity accessory - and finally getting banged up in the poky! Though she screamed and cried during sentencing, and promised to be good this time - the miniature "fuck off" inscribed into her nail polish called her sincerity into question!
Well just a short time ago Lindsay began serving what was supposed to be a 90 day sentence. Stories coming out of Lynnwood had Lohan behaving as a model prison: quiet, compliant, and cooperative. There were a few hitches: Logan wasn't eating - though she's never been one for solid food and usually prefers a liquid diet; and she'd stopped drinking - anything. Maybe she wasn't used to water as a main beverage instead of a mixer. However word was that the water in the facility is as filthy as anything seen since the days of cholera.
Lindsay's otherwise model behavior seems to have paid of. The sometime actress and tabloid mainstay (God bless her - what would we do without her?) was sprung loose earlier today. Prison officials declared severe overcrowding combined with the non violent nature of Lohan's offense as the reason for her early release. With so many rapists and serial murders running amok in the Land of the Free it just didn't make sense to blow tax payers' money on a celebrity. With America coming out of a recession the argument has validity. Of course if they made the wealthy pay for their own imprisonment it might go along way towards furthering the cause of American Justice. Since the USA has a two tiered health care system, why then not opt for the best penal system too?
BTW Lindsay maybe free from captivity but isn't being reintroduced into the wild just yet. The actress has been transferred from prison custody into a 90 day treatment program. If this 90 days lasts as long as her last 90 day sentence it'll be over before her hangover!
Good Luck Chuck - Charlie's devils
In an unrelated but parallel story Charlie Sheen is off the hook over his domestic assault beef. The actor got into some trouble over allegations that he threatened his wife - Brooke Mueller - with a knife during a Christmas Dinner altercation. Things looked bad for Chuck until it was revealed that Brooke was even more drunk than he was at the time. Plus she had a colorful cocaine past- including an alleged stint in rehab while preggers!The fact that Brooke's story kept changing didn't help her credibility much. First she claimed that Charlie had held a knife to her throat. Then she said that she made it up. Then her lawyer said that she only said that cause she had Battered Woman Syndrome or something. Cynics thought that she was keeping her options open while trying to figure out which side of the 20 million a year (which Chuck gets for 2 1/2 Men) she fell on. If he divorced her she'd burn him, but if he let her keep riding the gravy train then she wouldn't screw up his pay check.
Denise Richards even spoke out in Charlie's defense. She claimed that Charlie was a great father who never physically abused her (similar to what Mel Gibson's ex Robyn is currently saying about Mad Max via court depositions). Considering that this is the woman who as much as accused him of pedophilia during their ultra nasty divorce (Denise publicly claimed that Charlie enjoyed looking at "borderline porn" on the Internet. Then she brought her kids into the judge for an emergency closed door session following a return from a visit with Charlie. She claimed they were acting oddly. The judge examined the kids and then laughed Denise out of his office.) and people began thinking that money must talk or something. So considering the skanks and ho bags that seemed drawn to Sheen, the public started giving him the benefit of the doubt.
That only left the courts to deal with. Now Charlie's crack legal team were working overtime to get everything banged down to the minimum. They worked out a plea bargain where Chuck could do some minimal jail time and be back on the loose in time for the next season of his highly rated show. There was even a work release during the day so Sheen wouldn't get too cooped up. Charlie liked the idea of that since it gave him a chance to keep up on one of his favorite hobbies- chain smoking. However when it turned out that prison no smoking laws applied to the work release as well so the deal went out the window.
Now finally some closure has been reached in this sordid affair. Charlie was sentenced earlier today. He managed to avoid jail time too. Chuck will get the usual celebrity slap on the wrist - 30 days in rehab. He'll be checking into Promises Rehab Center - a facility with a track record of failure where celebrities are concerned (they failed with Lohan a couple of times and have had a few other hi profile losers pass through their gates including Hollywood's answer to Jerri Blank, Tara Reid!) sometime soon. No word on what Promises smoking policy might be. As for Chuck - next stop, divorce court.
So the moral of today's story is - in the words of Jerri Blank - you should always take responsibility for your actions, unless you don't have to!
