![](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2XdbIDH0Cwg/RkBuxyNnS5I/AAAAAAAABgI/_61SV2em2_U/s400/Screenshot2.jpg)
on The Ticket yesterday about why the public seems happy the Paris Hilton was sentenced to a 45 day jail sentence: We like society to be the great equalizer. We like the famous and the rich to be brought down, and we like the downtrodden to be raised (i.e. "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition".) I think there may be something to that theory.