Seems to me that setting up a situation that is bound to fail, serves no one, although some seem to get some weird pleasure at seeing social deviants get destroyed, particularly those who have made a lot of money. Something about knocking them down to size..  

Seems like a waste to me. I just hope that her reverence of Marylin does not go the same way.

I think this is the problem Charlie Sheen is running into -- the DA wants him on probation and his lawyers have been trying to get a deal without it, so as not to leave him in that precarious position.

Simple solutions to complex problems would make things so much easier, but there is nothing simple about addiction, even for those whose lives have been otherwise "normal" - you know, like an intact and loving family that doesn't see you as the gravy train, a life of school and playmates instead of TV and movies and agents and paparazzi and "friends" who all want something from you.

Yes, she does need to grow up, and yes, she needs to decide that this is the turning point, the "bottom" she doesn't want to get any deeper.  She can come to that point whether or not she does any jail time, but the question is, if she does come to that point, will jail time speed or hinder that process?  Maybe she needs to be in a facility that doesn't cater to celebrities, but to people living more "ordinary" lives.

I have no doubt that she has no idea who she really is, and little ability to be at all honest with herself; figuring that out and learning how to be brutally honest with one's self is hard enough without the addiction issues, but she is the one who ultimately has to be ready to do the hard and painful work that's required, she has to be the one who realizes that she's going to have to ditch a lot of the toxic people in her life who prefer that she be dysfunctional because it's better for them, end the co-dependence that keeps that cycle going, to stay out of and away from the places where she's likely to fall into old patterns.  She'll have to learn that a lot of people aren't going to like the "new" Lindsay, and these people will find ways to sabotage her recovery if they can, rather than support her.  That can be an enormous hurdle for someone who judges her worth by how others see her, and who lacks the self-esteem necessary to push back against people who don't have her best interests at heart.

Goldberg's comments, for whatever reason he made them, did one thing, I think: they humanized Lohan, and made her look less like a spoiled and over-indulged brat than someone whose emotional growth stopped a long time ago - and not entirely of her own choosing.

The thing is, asking TL to compare any of her clients to Lohan is absurd.  In counseling a client as to the merits and demerits of any particular plea bargain or other litigational avenue, the lawyer has to deal solely with that particular client and that client's foibles, personality and longer-range goals.  To get to the longer-range goals, BTW, requires both extended time and in-depth communication, two things most lawyers either lack or can't pull off and most clients can't or aren't willing to afford or pull off themselves.  I posit it's kind of hard to have a real conversation with someone who knows they're going to court to be sentenced and nonetheless goes ahead and paints "F-U-C-K-Y-O-U" across her fingernails for the judge to see.  

She is guilty of two non-injury DUIs in 2007.  And the world just revels in her punishment.

Her sentence--90 days in jail, followed by 90 days in patient confinement--exceeds what the customary sentence would be.

A first DUI in California--and more specifically in LA County--typically draws no jail time, aside from the time in jail on the initial arrest.

A second DUI typically draws a few days in jail, if that, in LA County.  The harshest County--Orange County--generally imposes 60 days in jail for a second DUI.  And often such sentences are served via home confinement.  Lohan got way more than that.

So, the outrage is misplaced. She is being treated worse than the average person.

But people really just love seeing Lohan get slammed.

Lohan is in trouble and punishing her may or may not be a "reality check."  Some people who suffer from addiction and mental illness cannot be reached by simply punishing them.  But punishing Lohan makes other people feel good or vindicated somehow.

Jeralyn points out the very real risk of suicide.  Since Lohan is such a public figure we all know a lot about her.   Her eerie posing as Marilyn Monroe--and as a gifted actress, she made herself look just like Marilyn--does give great concern.

First, a caveat; not all of the athletes, but certainly a majority, were also big time jerks. Spoiled rotten, from their first pre-pubervescent hint of their specialness, their narcisstic, anti-social behavior only gained steam as they aged. To call them rotten human beings would be a libel against rotten human beings. As the rest of the students were handed a single Salisbury steak for dinner, the athletes piled their plates with 4-5 filet mignons, only to throw 2-3 in the garbage as an, "f-u" gesture to the regular students. From disrupting classes to abusing the women, they were an embarrassment to everything a university education is supposed to stand for.

I'm just pointing this out as a way to say that these, so-called, "gifted people, chose that life, revel in it, and abuse their standing wantonly, and freely.

Maybe L.L. is simply a jerk, and/or maybe she's a truly troubled youngster who deserves our sympathy. My prejudice makes me lean towards the first....I hope I'm wrong.

Seriously.  It's simply not comparable, and I think it's putting one's head in the sand to pretend that someone whose entire life has been lived in the spotlight of celebrity has no more of a burden in dealing with this kind of thing than, say, I would or you would, or your cousin.

She is still a little child inside, a bud that never blossomed.  A syndrome affliating many child actors.

Neither jail or rehab will help her, imo.  She might do well in the proper mental facility - but it will take some time.

Sorry, but all she had to do was make a court date instead of leaving the country to party.  That's it.  

And if you find showing your most extreme private body parts to the entire world to be some smart 'political action' you are delusional.  That was nothing more than a desperate cry for attention.  She's hooked on her celebrity and she's hooked on drugs and alcohol.  I'm not sure which is worse, the addiction to the drugs and alcohol or the addiction to celebrity.  I think it's probably the latter.