Another Member in the Hall of Shame
Well, Kiefer Sutherland got busted early this morning on a DUI. This is apparently his 3rd such oopsie with the law on the same set of charges. He joins a long list of celebrity scofflaws who don’t seem to ‘get it’ — Mel and Lindsay and Paris and Nicole, Bill Murray, Ray Liotta, Mike Tyson, Tracy Morgan, Rip Torn, Haley Joel Osment, “Lost” cast member Michelle Rodriquez who served 60 days in jail, film director Gus Van Sant, David Hasselhoff, Shemar Moore, Ty Pennington, several notable (to some but not to me since I’m not a football fan) NFL players, former Duke All-American Guard J.J. Reddick (whom I know since I am a basketball fan), countless rappers, rock musicians of every era and the CEO of U.S. Airways.
Sheeeeeesh.
What’s the matter with these people? I really don’t get it. I understand partying — that’s not what I object to. What gets me is that even if they don’t have a friend able to be a designated driver, all of them have enough money to pay for a car and a chauffeur to haul their drunken and wasted asses home.
Why don’t they do it? Isn’t that what fame and power is all about — to have people do for you what you could, but don’t choose or care to, do for yourself?
Man, if I had the bucks those folks did, I’d be living the life of Driving Miss Daisy at half the age Miss Daisy was and enjoying it twice as much.
–phoebe kate