Martha Stewart a convicted felon? What is the world coming to?

She was a woman on top of the world. She had a multimillion-dollar company and a line of designer household goods at Kmart. But thanks to a little moral flexibility on her part, she might be on her way to prison. I admit that seeing the happy homemaker get her comeuppance left me feeling a little warm and fuzzy inside, but it wasn’t as fun as I had expected it to be.

Seeing a cheating rich bitch go down is usually good for a laugh, but in the grand scheme of things Martha isn’t the biggest corporate rat in comparison to Enron officials.

She was convicted for lying to federal investigators in an obstruction of justice case about the sale of her ImClone stock. Ironically, the money she made from the sale was peanuts for a woman with such a large domestic empire.

The charges against Martha and the Enron executives came out around the same time, and left many leery of trusting anyone in a suit. The charges from those cases are serious, but she shouldn’t be the poster child for corporate scandal.

The Enron case is just now entering the legal system, with former chief executive Jeffrey K. Skilling being charged with 35 counts of fraud, conspiracy and insider trading. Investors in Enron lost billions of dollars and more than 20 executives have been implicated in the company’s financial crimes.

Her conviction doesn’t represent a victory for the little guy over the perpetrators of corporate scandals. Martha getting caught was just the luck of the draw in the corporate Monopoly game. Some people receive a get-out-of-jail-free card while others don’t get to pass go.

While some may think Martha is just a crazy control freak — no one can be that excited over a bouquet of leaves and not be cracked– she isn’t the biggest of the bad. In a perverse way, I’d like to see her come out of this legal mess better than before. I tend to enjoy a good villainess, and Martha is an excellent evil domestic queen.