Pajiba

Thankfully it seems that the only normal one in the family (Michael Lohan Jr.) may be stepping in to take control. That's pretty shitty parenting when your brother has to over for the parents.

This is spot-on, Courtney. Great job!

Not to sound lousy, but here goes: Who gives a shit? Really, there are literally millions of irresponsible people with absolutely no concept of how to take responsibility for their own actions, especially when it comes to addiction. Fuck, hit any treatment center, detox, or sober living facility and you see the same faces over and over and over again. There's no sense in pointing out who's to blame, or where they learned it from. Bottom line? They have to own up to their own shit and admit - to themselves - that they have a problem, before they can even think about some sort of recovery.

If anyone's to blame for anything, it's Lohan herself, who seems too tangled in the delusion of "celebrity" to actually admit she's got a fucking problem that's continuing to escalate. Not too long from now, there'll be another scandal - another bottom. Then another one. And another, and another, and hopefully she gets her shit together before she hits absolute bottom and winds up dead, surrounded by flashbulbs...

@meh: Wow that's exactly my family dynamic! What an awful awful coincidence.

I don't know, I think not having a safety net made me much more aware of the consequences of my actions. If I'd had people around me willing/able to clean up or ignore my messes I might have turned out much like Lohan.
I know someone in real life who is quite a bit like La Lohan without the benefit of the money or the fame but with all the horrible enabling parenting.
I think I do blame Dina for this.

It wouldn’t have mattered if her parents were June and Ward Cleaver. Most child stars end up smoking dylithem crystals anyway.

Here's my opinion on the whole Lindsay Lohan thing:

Let's say that, due to some extreme economic/production snafu, everyone in North America gets a bike. It's nothing too-too special, but it's well made, stable, and you get where you need to go on it. Everyone is completely satisfied with their bike, as they should be.

But THEN, due to another extreme economic/production snafu totally unrelated to the first one, they crank out a couple Lamborghini's, so they hand them off to a handful of random people throughout the land. Everyone still enjoys their bikes, but at the same time they kinda wish they got a Lamborghini. But whatever, they're still happy with the bikes and life continues as normal.

Now let's say that one of the Lamborghini drivers gets cocky and, in a mix of booze, drugs and bad decision making crashes their car. They emerge unscathed, but the car is several kinds of fucked. Too bad. They sob to everyone that will listen that they need a new car, and everyone feels a little bad but ultimately can't help but feel that they had it coming.

But good news! Thanks to a break in their insurance, they get another fucking Lamborghini. It doesn't matter if they actually earned the privilege of driving one or if someone else deserves it more than they do: they just got another one because they already had one before. Anyway, balance of the world is restored until one day, oops! The car is destroyed again due to bad life choices.

Now ask yourselves: Why couldn't this person just ride a fucking bike? Sure it's not as glamorous, but it still does the trick. And sure, you can argue that they still would have crashed the bike, but come the fuck on here: if you crash a bike (while wearing a helmet mind you), you're looking at a few scratches, maybe a busted tire. That's nothing too bad. Instead, someone who shouldn't have been driving a Lamborghini was behind the wheel of one anyway, and managed to get themselves into huge amounts of pain and suffering because they weren't happy with just riding a goddamn metaphorical bike.

So yeah, next time Lindsay crashes her "Lamborghini" don't expect me to piss on her to put her out.

"I think I do blame Dina for this."

Yeah she's a fucking turd of a mother. Fantastic. Blame her. Great. Now what?

Anybody (regardless of whether or not they're an addict), can blame everybody in the fucking world for all their problems, their lousy jobs, their financial situations, their lost opportunities, blah-blah-so-on-and-whathtefuckever... It still comes down to this: Are you going to do something different? Because while it's easier than hell to sit around and blame everybody else for the myriad of reasons your life's in the shitter, the only person that can actually do something about it - is you. Period.

And if that means Lohan needs to drop off the radar entirely, fire her publicists, ditch her enabling mother/father/friends, and dump whatever money she's got left into a relatively low-key, one-bedroom shithole in the middle of fucking Dullsville, USA to start cleaning up, so be it.

But here's the kicker - I can't do it for her. Neither can you, some fucking judge, reality rehab show, agent, or anybody else in the goddam world. Just her. She's had every opportunity in the world up to this point to start living differently, but you know what? She passed.

And it's her fault.

At this point I also have zero sympathy. I used to have it, way back when it seemed like she was just on a bad track. But you know what? if you just fucking STAYED HOME or went to a spa island for a month and stayed the fuck away from the cameras, *then* I could feel sympathy. Because she's trying to change. But nothing about anything that she's ever done tells me that. And after a certain point you just stop caring and stop having sympathy and wish that they'd just go the fuck away. Her and her entire horrible family. They promote the famewhoring industry in the worst ways and I am sick to DEATH hearing about them.

STAY THE FUCK HOME.

And the mother? Like Rhett once said to Scarlett: "How dare you call yourself a mother? Why, a cat's a better mother than you."

Jeremy, what a great analogy for humility.

If we look at the case as one of addiction then the standard rhetoric would say that because of the sheer amount of enablement present in Ms Lohan's life despite all that she has done and has happened to her she has yet to come anywhere near hitting bottom and she'll never get better until she does and has that long look in the psychic mirror

think of all the 24 year olds you know - I see plenty of people aged 18-24 in my job and I could ANY of them going that off the rails given the right set of circustances of a world where boundaries are actively blitzkrieged by those we would usually look to for support and guidance - from family to the special treatment for the rich and famous legal system.

as an individual her choices are her own but nothing exists in a vaccum

Its just a pity that there's no money in blanket reporting of all the horriffic factors that lead to the widespread poverty trap that thousands of non pretty people from the films are in or there might be some fuckin hope of changing that - cause frankly if a state as powerful and diverse as the US could re-marshall its resources and refocus the national discourse onto sorting its own shit out that would really be a remarkable achievement for such a young nation

No long harangue about my miserable childhood, just this: Compared to mine, Lohan's was a Disney Fairytale. Instead of becoming a version of Lohan, I decided to man-up and become a responsible adult, despite having two of the worst parents imaginable.
Now that I'm a parent, I'm raising one of the most wonderful, well-adjusted, brilliant kids in the universe. It's all about what YOU decide to do with YOUR life. Wanna blame your parents for your bad behavior? Go ahead... you'll get no sympathy from me.

You had me until I got to the part where you relieve Michael from any guilt. Abandoning your family does not make you any less responsible for your child's behavior. In fact, peacing out and acting like your kids don't exist until they are rich and famous could be just as destructive (if not more) for a child's upbringing as an actively shitty parent. I know plenty of people who had abandonment issues their whole lives because of absent fathers.

Some folks are "drug addicts": that is to say that they have abused a particular drug so frequently that their physical and/or mental well-being suffers without it. Then there are "partying addicts", people who, while they frequently use drugs & alcohol, are more addicted to the lifestyle than to the substances themselves.

I feel that Lohan is more of the latter. She doesn't know what else to do with herself aside from "going out" and either spending money or going to various clubs/bars/etc. She dreads "missing something", or she dreads being "stuck inside at home"; whatever the underlying reason is, she just cannot break away from that lifestyle. Now she has an army of people telling her that a) she has no problem at all (aka her mother) or b) she does have a problem but it's an "illness" she has no control over. For a girl like Lindsay, this is basically telling her she's free to do whatever she likes with no consequences at all. Remember, if she'd refrained from driving around like a nitwit on the night her current legal woes began, it would have never gone this far. Being a public menace is the real crime here.

The best solution would be house arrest. She would avoid actual jail and she would only be permitted to leave the house for legitimate reasons, like real, court-approved work. Then, once forced out of the alcohol & drug-soaked nitelife scene, we'd see if she really has a "drug problem" or if she's simply a spoiled, narcissistic little brat who "parties" too much and gets herself into trouble (as people who spend lots of time getting wasted after midnight tend to do).

I'd still hit it.

This totally fits in with the rest of this website.

Who fucking cares?

Dear Lilo
Your 15 minutes are officially over. Kindly exit to your right. But please leave those big ol' titties on the table. I ain't done wit em just yet. Yours in Christ.

The American male public.