Free Republic

The recent publication of a close-up of Lena Dunham's naked bottom as season's greeting from America's new sweetheart prompts a moment of psychoanalysis. Fundamentally, Dunham's repulsive presence is political propaganda. Totalitarianism maintains its control through fear and imposition of the irrational, inhumane, and self-destructive mental condition generally termed dissociation. The vulgarity and obscenity of many female comics play a role in inducing that malleable mental state in people who have fallen into attenuated connections with God and conscience. Dunham leads the pack of the propagandistas of the disgusting.

What better way to get over a divorce then a night out on the tiles with party-girl Paris Hilton? Britney Spears and her new best friend have been seen on the party circuit most nights this week celebrating her newfound freedom. But it seems the pop singer, soon to be divorced from rap flop Kevin Federline, is having a little trouble keeping up with the millionaire heiress' drinking habits. Britney, 25, looking a bit worse for wear, flashed her white knickers as she struggled to get out of the car at Paris' Hollywood home. It comes just days after she...