Timothy Egan is one of the best writers at the NY Times. Here’s his killer lede from today’s column:

Like a brief, intense summer squall, a media storm passed over small-town America a few years ago, stripping away what was left of the myth of the rural idyll to reveal a cast of hollow-cheeked white people smoking meth behind the corn silo.

Just what you want, pothunters made more effecient by meth. Jeez, archaeology can’t catch a break.