Mineta Blasts Britney

Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta has joined the Britney Spears hater brigade. Is it her sexed-up image that has him all hot and bothered? Her bland, generic songs? Her bad reality show? Nope. It's photos of her driving with her infant son on her lap, rather than in a child safety seat. "There's absolutely no excuse for this display - not instinct, not fear, not even reckless paparazzi," Mineta said Monday, while not coincidentally promoting a $25 million initiative to push new or tougher booster-seat laws. I'd say this qualifies as the biggest celebrity smackdown by a federal official since Dan Quayle went ballistic on Murphy Brown.