Daughter safe from Love’s love
by Shannon Harrison, Editor-In-Chief

   Today I read the most shocking news: Courtney Love has lost custody of her 11-year-old daughter. I couldn’t believe it. Not Courtney Love, the polite, successful, debonair woman whom we all look to as a role model—it just couldn’t be.
PLEASE! I’m surprised it took this long to remove this innocent child from the crazed-psycho frenzied thing we call a woman or, better yet, a celebrity.
   The article says Ms. Love has had erratic behavior for months. As far as I’m concerned, she has been a loser since she came on the rock scene.
   On Oct. 2, Love broke several windows of her ex-boyfriend’s house, then went home and took 20 mgs of Oxy-Contin. Her daughter and nanny cared for her until an ambulance came. After her recovery, Love said it was the only time her daughter had ever pitched in on one of her “little” crises. Little? She almost committed suicide. Well, I guess it was nice of her to not include her daughter in any of her other messes.
   Pictures of Love looking as she always does—messed up—are everywhere. She basically parades around on drugs and alcohol, starting fights in airplanes and trying to break into houses. Her tactics have been going on for a lot longer than several months. With all of these actions in the public eye, why did it take this long to remove her child?
   If Love were a non-famous person, her daughter would have been taken from her years ago. Obviously, being famous has its advantages. If Love were not rich and famous and paraded around her town as she does now, her child would have been taken from her long ago. However, it doesn’t work like this in Hollywood.
   Love says she doesn’t do school stuff, doesn’t drive and gets embarrassed because some of the moms at her daughter’s school won’t let their children come over because they think Love is scary. She just named the stuff a mother should want to do for her child. To her, being a parent involves an hour a day, if that. Then nanny takes over because it’s time for mommy to make a fool of herself.
  Considering the nanny is raising her, how well does Love’s daughter know her mother?
   Maybe she will change her ways to become a better influence for her daughter, but that has the same chance as my winning the lottery.