Take Kate Moss for instance, the one-time fashion model and walking advert for weight problems is all over the British tabloids like a cheap suit, why? because she snorts a lot of Cocaine. Her ex-boyfriend, the human wreckage known as Pete Docherty, is also all over the papers, why? because he sucks up more powder then a Hoover at a carpet cleaning convention.
Are we really so vacuous that the drug-taking antics of a couple of nobodies is our number one form of entertainment? It's astonishingly sad that this should be the case at a time when there are so many more important things going on - the "War" on terror gathers pace with the US torturing everybody in sight, Muslims are still killing one another over a cartoon that was crap at best and Tony Blair proves he's blinder than David Blunkett by continuing to allow members of the Cabinet to get away with all manner of wrongdoing by insisting they didn't break Parliamentary Rules. It's like a "Get Out of Jail Free" card without having to buy the Monopoly set ...
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