Perspective

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One Last Weekend Offtopicism

The Liberal Avenger:

Probably the most important factor that kept me away from this social evil in the long term - and it is a testament to the power of this drug that I might consider this more important that commitments to job or family - is that eventually I ended up in a part of the country where crystal methamphetamine simply doesn't exist...The Ghost of Tom Joad - the thing that haunts the poor, uneducated, white working-class in California - is crystal methamphetamine. The whole place is haunted. If I'd spent the last 13 years there instead of in New England, with a quarter-gram $20 bag of meth as close as the nearest poor hollow-cheeked, toothless, Wal-Mart workin' wage-warrior bastard, I wonder if I'd have been able to say no for so long.