[Strangler Lewis]

I guess we need to nail down what exactly we're doing here.

1) I don't think the fun makers are making of poverty. To an extent, however, making fun of destiny. No one here would have trouble making fun of Paris Hilton, the Kardashian girls, the spoiled girls on Sweet 16, etc., even though it could be said just as easily about them as about the Wal-Mart folks that it would have been hard for them to have been otherwise.

2) Are our jaws dropping because behavior crosses some broadly defined line into grotesquerie and extremism? Yes. We do that all the time here with photos of one sort or another. As a practical matter, whether it's in our social relationships or our legal ones, there is only so much room for case specific understanding before bright lines get drawn, and we say, "I'm sorry, that's f*cked up."