And the last paragraph of the Post story is a keeper too!
Quest's unidentified companion was given a summons for not carrying any identification, the source said.
Are we supposed to carry our papers on us at all times, now?
3: Hey! LB! Is this really a crime in NY? Because if it is I might have to take my driver's license out of my wallet.
I'm as surprised as you are. I could see a cop legitimately treating an arrest differently if you don't have a drivers license or similar -- something that might be a summons if the cop reliably knew your name and address could turn into an arrest if they had to take your word for it. But I'm guessing: I don't actually know a thing.
NYCLU says no, you don't have to produce ID. (And LB is right -- if cops can't write you a summons because you don't have ID, they'll arrest you.)
The Times took the "high" road, although I was puzzled by this: Mr. Quest, 46, looking haggard and stressed after 12 hours in custody, still dressed in blue jeans, sneakers and a navy-blue zippered jacket. What? He hadn't changed into his pajamas? A suit? Or his penis rope?
And the CNN has a feature article on Quest up on its website (updated yesterday) with the tag line: Quest sets out to discover what it takes to be honored by the Queen of England.
8.2: Somehow he didn't realize that it's actually legal to get a Prince Albert, instead of going into these back alleys.
His sex toy was in his boot? Is that, like, the postmodern equivalent of keeping a knife in your boot?
"Oh no, how will we have kinky sex now that they've searched us?"
"Don't worry, they didn't notice the dildo in my boot."
10: In his boot as opposed to his bonnet, I think.
CNN International seems to run nearly nothing but this annoying Quest character (related to Johnny?). The fewer of his shows the better.
12: better him than BBC International's eight-hour long real-time exegeses of the Queen's comings and goings.
Quest doing some rope tricks. Of course I have my rope at ~1:00. The Professor's Nightmare rope trick has become my personal torment at ~6:00.
Race Bannon has a lot to answer for.
The boot is in the rear.
not that there's anything wrong with that...
"Sex toy in his boot"
Let me translate this from the British. He had a fag in his trunk.
Botched joke. I think you know where I was going with it, though.
Hijack:
Hidden behind that appearance of objectivity, though, is a Pentagon information apparatus that has used those analysts in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration's wartime performance, an examination by The New York Times has found.
Only I first read about this about four years ago.
Hidden behind that appearance of objectivity, though, is a Pentagon information apparatus that has used those analysts in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration's wartime performance,
It's almost like we read the same blogs.
Richard Quest is the single most annoying person on tv---okay, right below Nancy Grace---and I'm glad to see him disgraced, frankly. The meth explains a lot.
It's interesting that for the Pentagon, the American people is just another target -- of PsyOps rather than of smart bombs. Their job is to fight wars, and their primary enemy is the enemy, and their secondary enemy is anyone who tries to keep them from fighting.
Instrumental rationality and procedural democracy, in the context of about 60 years of anti populist indoctrination.
22: What about the penis rope, JM, hmm? What does that tell you?
You bigots are probably prejudiced against motherfuckers too.
Perhaps the 'other man' worked for AP.......
What does that tell you?
That his former employers should have sent him to Gaza or Sadr City to satisfy his death wish.
Clearly he was just involved in some manner of reenactment of life during Roman times. (The museum people say this figurine simply represents a bound slave, but then they would, wouldn't they.)
"some drugs in his pocket, a rope around his neck that was tied to his genitals, and a sex toy in his boot"
By Jove, I've got next year's Halloween costume all figured out now, and so early to.. err ... boot. Now, the only question remaining to be answered is: just what sort of was it?
Please insert "sex toy" between "sort of" and "was it". It seems I just got too excited to write the sentence out properly.
Didn't i predict how Open University would end up? I think I did. I'm tentatively gloating.
Though I didn't predict that when we don't get Cass Sunstein, we get the awesomely loopy Richard Stern. You can't excerpt this stuff, just scroll down.
Didn't anyone else first read about the Times story four years ago? Was it all a dream? I haven't seen any blogs mentioning it. I'm sure they uncovered all kinds of new facts, etc, but still.
David, it's like watching a play when you know the outcome but the people on stage don't. You don't try to explain things to the people acting the parts, and you don't intervene and try to prevent the murders.
33 represents some top-grade cynicism.
I'm not objecting, I'm admiring.
If it gets Richard Quest off the air, a vindictive and counterproductive drug policy that erodes our civil liberties is a small price to pay.
(Sadly, it probably won't.)
31: Jonathan Lear, Sunstein, Stern: Open University of Chicago.
Levy being a former Chicagoan.
They'll have to get rid of this Herf guy.
Dick Quest: not just a name, it's a hobby!
