
phone calls about what venues might still be open for her continued partying pleasure.

Spears has taken a semester-long descent into addled behavior: A typical night might include a lie to her young sons' minders about how she's just popping out to the drugstore, a trip to some clubs where she gets so looped that she decides she must change into the ill-fitting bikinis worn by the waitresses, a substance binge that lasts until she vomits on herself, and, in a boot-and-rally move worthy of the Delta Tau Delta brotherhood, some 5 a.m. It seems to be dawning on at least some people that the 25-year-old mother of two is actually a human being for whom things are going very badly.

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Rosie O'Donnell has renewed her offer to adopt Spears (in free verse, naturally) Gwen Stefani has expressed her desire to "scoop her up and give her a kiss" late-night comics are pulling their Britney punches. In fact, this week's Spears news was so grim that you could practically hear the national laugh track fading to a few awkward giggles. While tabloid press stalwarts - I'm looking at you, Andrea Peyser - have been reluctant to curtail the guffawing and censorious finger-wagging that began when the singer spent the holidays flashing her cooter and kicking off a three-month bender, the ribaldry surrounding her unraveling is beginning to feel extremely tacky. A question: At what point will people notice that the Britney Spears story has become rapidly less funny?
