Spears: It is what it is, I guess

Much fuss has been made lately about Britney Spears driving her SUV with her four-month-old son in her lap. Obviously, the baby should've been secured into the car seat in the back seat. But nope, he was up front chilling on hot mama's lap. Awesome.

This girl/woman can't catch a break. She's made some pretty sketchy life choices lately and it seems like she'll have to do something extraordinary if she wants to amount to more than just a Feder-punch line. (You see what I did there? I took the last name Federline and combined it with punch line. Shit, I guess it's not funny if you have to explain it.) If Letterman, Conan and the writers at SNL have been waiting for more Britney Spears material, then she just gave them at least a month's worth.

I was surprised to hear she responded to any of this because it seemed like the type of thing handlers would tell her to "wait out" until it blew over. But instead of keeping a low profile, she came out and said the paparazzi were so aggressive that she acted on instinct. Well I'm no expert but I think your instincts should have told you that a bunch of middle aged men with cameras weren't going to put your baby's life in danger -- but driving with the baby on your lap would.

"I made a mistake and so it is what it is, I guess," Spears said to Access Hollywood.

Overall, I think it was a lapse of judgment -- a young mother's mistake. A lot of press outlets are giving this more attention than it probably deserves. Don't get me wrong though, I'm still totally against driving with an infant on your lap. But I don't think that what Spears did is anywhere near as bad as, well, this: