By Philip Rosenbaum
New York (CNN) — Some Americans spent Friday night worrying about their next mortgage payment. Many prayed for loved ones serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. Others continued to clean up spilled oil in the U.S. Gulf.
Paris Hilton, meanwhile, was tooling around the Las Vegas Strip with a male friend in a black Cadillac Escalade, until a traffic cop thought he smelled marijuana and pulled them over.
With all the problems the world faces — climate change, terrorism, economic malaise and more — why do we care so much about celebrities such as Hilton and others getting into trouble?
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PHILIP ROSENBAUM 