Britney seems to have discovered that motherhood and applepie is not as fun as singlehood and panty-less partying with Paris Hilton. The two girls are learning to upstage even Madonna, the mother of all self-promotion. It is fascinating to watch how newspapers all over the world are covering the two little Lolitas from the United States as if they had no one in their own country to talk about. Here are Britney’s holiday wishes for the world, found on britneyspears.com.

Postscript December 9, 2006. Today the WSJ wrote these words in an on celebrity lawsuits against tabloids:

Last month, a California state court rejected a defamation claim brought by Lavely & Singer on behalf of Britney Spears against US Weekly. Ms. Spears alleged the magazine libeled her when it published an article about a sexually explicit home video she purportedly made with her husband. (Ms. Spears recently filed for divorce.) Lavely & Singer says it hasn’t decided whether to appeal.

In dismissing the suit, the court suggested that times have changed. “In ‘The Dick Van Dyke Show,’ a married couple slept in different beds, but in ‘Sex and the City,’ the single women slept in many different beds.” US Weekly’s article on the sex video wasn’t defamatory, the court said, since Ms. Spears has “put her modern sexuality squarely, and profitably, before the public eye.”