I have spent considerable time writing about Lindsay Lohan and have pretty good insight as to what’s happening to her, at least on the surface. My job is to take that information that I do know and then extrapolate that into some kind of insightful analysis, you don’t have to agree with my assertions, but that doesn’t mean that I just made them up out of thin air.

Also, it would interest you to know, that my opinion of the situation is shared by virtually anyone who has written on the subject matter. We may be gossip writers, but we know just as much about our subject as political writers, tech writers or any other area of interest a person delves into and then writes about.

Gossip may not be well respected, but here you are reading about it. All I am trying to do is put some kind of thoughtful insight into it.

Thanks Jono and Catherine – I too have pity on Lindsay, but that doesn’t excuse her behavior, or that of her mother and father.

As for Ani, I think we can dismiss her ideas based on the level of intelligence portrayed in her posts and her hand-waving generalizations. I mean, “u know absolutelu NOTHING about her or her mom”, so I’m sure she knows exactly what’s going on as she’s in tight with the Lohan family.

And BAIC, “gossip without substance”? Are you kidding? Can you honestly say with a straight face that celebrity gossip has substance more often than not? Maybe you should take a look at what’s going on in the world around you before you talk about substance.

Only now is Michael Lohan attempting to make amends. I feel for him, I really do, but seriously her parents are at the root of this problem. To be perfectly frank, parents are often at the root cause of most problems with young people – and people in general.