O Carrie-Da

Bonsoir, mes amis. That's all the French you're getting; that's all the French you need. Back to the language of Empire. I'm in Montreal - where Jesus was from, dontchaknow? - but what matters to me now is the latest episode in the scandal-plagued life of ex-Miss California, Carrie Prejean. As you will recall from previous updates, Prejean was dumped after invoking her Christianity to support her opposition to same-gender marriage. Overnight she went from pun-up girl to conservative pin-up girl.

Last time I mentioned her, she had launched a lawsuit against the pageant organizers for leaking the fact they paid $5,000 for her breast implants. Now it seems that she's dropped her alleged $1 million dollar lawsuit in the most dramatic of circumstatnces. It's alleged that the pageant owners' lawyers found a video of Carrie, uh, enjoying herself:

When the video started playing, Carrie's first reaction was "that's disgusting" ... and Carrie denied it was her. Then, the camera angle changed ... and panned up to her face. She was caught red-handed ... so to speak.

Carrie was rendered speechless and immediately began talking with her lawyer. We're told it took about 15 seconds for Carrie to drop her $1 million dollar demand.

Doubts have been expressed over the validity of the story, as you would expect. It is, afterall, a little too convinient, don't you think? If the video exists, it will only be a matter of time before it surfaces on line, I suppose. Until then we will have to speculate. Speculate, analyze and theologize.

You see, we could say that Carrie's act of self-love models God's love for the world, despite the theological complications of such a position. Or, we could say that Carrie's public life models the hypocritical trainwreck that is American civilisation. Yeah, I think I'll go with that one.