Cuckoo for CocoKate

I feel like there's something I'm fundamentally missing about the Kate Moss story.

She didn't actually get caught dealing drugs, right? Wasn't found smuggling them on a plane in her baby's nappy diaper? She wasn't trying to pass off crack-rock in water as matzoh ball soup?

She didn't sign up with the Medillin deep in the jungles of Colombia, shoot down an American Blackhawk with a shoulder-fired grenade launcher, and get caught in flagrante delicto fellating Pablo Escobar himself to score her next fix, right?

All that happened, far as I can tell, is that she was caught *doing* coke.

This is why she's been at the top of my news tickers every day this week, why a steady stream of chattering heads have suddenly found employ pondering "how did it all happen," why a bevy of fashion and cosmetics companies have suddenly and quite noisily cancelled the Mossy one's endorsement deals.

All because,  shocker of all shockers,  it turns out one of the last remaining divasaurs from that early 90s fad known as Supermodeldom -- and a gal who made her name on the fact that she looked every bit the spitting image of a strung-out überskank -- does, in fact, like to ride the white horse to Christmas Village.

I don't know...maybe I'm just a cynical bastard...maybe it's that my childhood sports heroes were guys like Dwight Gooden, Lawrence Taylor, and Darryl Strawberry... maybe I'm just out of touch with those infamous Red State values, but I have to wonder....

Does anyone *really* give a shit? Really?

Comments

[Kevin O'Reilly]

It's like steroids, man. The public apparently loves it when guys play like they're taking something but are displeased to learn they actually do.

[mock]

Coke can ruin your life, but mostly when you get caught doing it.

[billy-jay]

Hey, I'm pulling for her.

[Rasafrasit]

This is likely not new to many of the folks here but deserves mention nonetheless:

http://www.druglibrary.org/think/~jnr/szasz2.htm

Strangest pro-Drug defense ever: "For if the desire to read Ulysses cannot be cured with an anti-Ulysses pili, then neither can the desire to use alcohol, heroin, or any other drug or food be cured by counterdrugs (for example, Antabuse versus alcohol, methadone versus heroin) or so-called drug treatment programs (which are coercions masquerading as cures)."