Dear Certain Citizens of Kentwood, Louisiana:

I have two news flashes for you.

One--Britney Spears doesn't owe you a cent. Apparently, there are some people in Spears' economically suffering hometown who believe that she should toss a few dollars their way. Why? Because she was born there? Because she has money and the people in Kentwood don't? Because Kentwood's one industry is on the skids? It is one thing to tax the rich; it is another to attempt it through emotional blackmail. Spears created the Britney Spears Foundation to run the Britney Spears Camp for the Performing Arts, not to help Kentwood solve its financial problems.

Two--Britney's clubbing, her kiss with Madonna and her magazine cover photos are not immoral, and they do not bring discredit to Kentwood. Does the pop star do things that are in bad taste? Sometimes. Was her two-day marriage tacky beyond belief? Yes. Do the citizens of Kentwood have a right to be angry because of the media swarm of Jason Alexander? Of course they do. But tacky isn't immoral, and even the television sets in Kentwood come with channel changers. While it is indeed pitiful that "spiritual" Britney thinks that Hinduism has something to do with the Kabbalah, there is no evidence that she is lying, cheating, stealing, or harming people. People who do those things are immoral.