This is absurd, but I’m actually going to try to analyze Britney Spears’s motives in a serious manner. Sure is more productive than adding to the ridiculous amount of baseless election analysis going around. The pop singer recently dumped husband K-Fed after having two children by him.

Fox News says the divorce was all about money — indeed, it seems that Nov. 6 would have been the very last day for Spears to avoid giving Federline more money via the prenuptual agreement.

But I don’t think money works as sole governor of Spears’ behavior. It really can’t explain why she’d have kids (you know, ‘cuz kids cost money and keep her from touring). An honest falling-in-and-out-of-love doesn’t work either; otherwise, she wouldn’t leave right after giving birth to a second child, precisely on the day the prenup terms adjust.

What works best is a combination of the money motive and publicity. Spears keeping her name in the news explains all of her behavior, save the timing of the divorce filing, explicable only by money — and publicity is tied to money, so the two make a good couple. The media (including me now, I suppose) predictably jumped all over the marriage, the kids, the divorce.

Robert VerBruggen blogs at http://robertsrationale.blogspot.com.

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