I was in Virginia for almost three weeks during the Christmas break, and I didn't get to see the news much. I missed this. The mother of the dude who knocked up Sarah Palin's daughter was arrested for selling Oxycontin. I don't really care; millions buy/sell drugs. But I carefully enjoyed what Alex Pareene said in that article:

This is a sad and not-at-all entertaining story of broke-ass bored trashy people in a miserable unhealthy little sprawling town using and selling drugs to briefly escape the dull pain of their shitty lives, and it would not be news that the mother of a high school dropout who's marrying some idiot girl he impregnated was arrested for using drugs except that at some point we were all instructed to admire these exalted Real Americans. The Republicans were sort of right, these people are representative of America's small towns, and that is why as a whole we decided to elect the smart, educated, well-off urbanite aspirational black couple from Chicago instead of the angry Vietnam veteran and the scary PTA moron-bitch with the fucked-up family.

Ha-ha-holy crap.