Speaking of state run media: Have you read yesturdays NYTimes article re; Bush & Rumsfelds “Dept of Propaganda”.

Well, it being the closest thing we have to state-run media, the comparisons are abundant. I’m told the English version of Al Jazeera is run a little differently, but we have to remember that every terrorist, radical, beheader, and ‘insurgent’ tunes into–and sends their latest tapes to–the Arabic version. Anyway… Let’s stay on Quest ‘n’ Meth.

I’m fairly sure it’s more than their sex partners that makes them gay, but while Quest is out (and apparently a wandering billboard for kink, too – see Towleroad blip) Cooper is, as yet, still happily perched on the Fence of Ambiguity. It is subway adjacent and features the Always Greener Lawn. Quest seems to like poking fun at royals and would probably have had a field day with Cooper’s mom, were he born here instead of the UK.

As with anyone in the public eye with a substance abuse problem, the next few weeks will say a lot about his character and his prospects for recovery. Oddly, I’m worried CNN will object more to the ‘sextoy’ in his boot than the acetone and antifreeze in his respiratory passages.

On a side note, the Google context-based ads at the foot of this page are a wry laugh.

WHat is sad is that the NY Times felt the need to report on this in the first place.

True enough, but I merely plucked that from the locked Wikipedia page to aver that he was (A) gay; and (B) possessing of some integrity at least once before in his career. Al Jazeera is probably best understood as a Muslim Fox News. Fair & Balanced isn’t really in the vernacular of either, but while I personally welcome their reporting as counterpoint to our own media, as a gay Jew I think I would find it difficult to serve them, as well, and I ain’t no Zionist neithah. ;)

I doubt that pictures of people with Zits or bad teeth will have many detrimental effects on anyone. That fact that we live in an uncivil, ignorant and greedy culture has keep people gusling booze and smoking tobacco which are both decidely worse than herion on human heatlh, yet people keep pumping up on them since they reap those corporate profits from which our congressmen get paid.Meth is worse than heroin but hardly cigarettes or Booze.
You see how they fared with booze during prohibition: it gave the Mafia a good in.

If the Government spent more time spreading wealth, health and education around and less time enlarging the American Empire and the military -industrial complex, perhaps people would find something worth living for and less
to escape. Until then LOL. Drugs are just a distraction to dumb people out from what’s really happening.

I’m not sure what the job offer from Al Jazzera has to do with anything. His being a Jew has no necessary implication with being a Zionist.
The Moslems have lived side by side with Jews, Christians and other Sects for centuries.

See, he’s not completely incapable of making intelligent choices.

It would be too cunning of CNN to make him report on “The Economy of Drug Use in America” and force him to follow young, gay meth users. As it is, an anti-meth campaign recently held a network coup here in Phoenix by playing “Crystal Darkness” on all the local channels and allowing people to call in with questions after being grossed out by umpteen close-ups of rotting teeth and terrible skin.

Well, it’s one way to assail a gay man’s vanity.