Redneck Press with Fried Chicken and Coffee

I gakked this from Hal­vard John­son on Face­book. Not the meth, the review, dummy.

Let's hope it's theft he doesn't mind. It is the NY Times after all.

By WALTER KIRN

Pub­lished: July 1, 2009

Think glob­ally, suf­fer locally. This could be the moral of “Meth­land,” Nick Reding’s unnerv­ing inves­tiga­tive account of two grue­some years in the life of Oel­wein, Iowa, a rail­road and meat­pack­ing town of sev­eral thou­sand whipped by a methamphetamine-laced panic whose ori­gins lie out­side the place itself, in forces almost too great to com­pre­hend and too piti­less to bear. The rav­ages of meth, or “crank,” on Oel­wein and count­less for­saken locales much like it are shown to be merely super­fi­cial symp­toms of a vaster social demen­tia caused by, among other things, the iron domin­ion of cor­po­rate agri­cul­ture and the slow melt­ing of vil­lages and fam­i­lies into the world­wide finan­cial stew.

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This is hap­pen­ing as well in the Twin Tiers, the area where I grew up, par­tic­u­larly in Brad­ford County PA, whose county seat, Newsweek claimed a few years ago, is yet another Meth Val­ley.

They're EVERYWHERE, folks! Gitcher own.