SCHADENFREUDE ALERT

[lauralh]

Readers who bought A Million Little Pieces from Random House get refunded.

NPR's Frey Fraud story

Smoking Gun's investigation: none of the crimes referred to in the book actually happened.

And he plagiarised a bunch of it.

From that last link:

...I suspect you are [allergic to the truth]. That's why you love this fake, Frey: because Frey's version of the drug world is false in every way. But it's a nice rightwing lie, so you're happy. He assures you that indeed, drugs equals addiction equals rehab or death. Which is utter, absolute nonsense.

Here's a stat to prove it: last year Italian pollution officials checked levels of chemical in the Po River, which drains most of Northern Italy. They discovered there was so much cocaine residue in the water that the residents of the area had to be using coke at more than ten times the rate cops had estimated. It meant that every young adult in the place was coked, every weekend. Two relevant facts: Northern Italy is virtually crime-free. The only crimes around are imports (Albanians, mostly), and they're not the coked-up partygoers whose piss was getting the river so high. (Lots of talkative, gung-ho fishies in the Po, I bet.)

Second key fact: coke is actually one of the more dangerous drugs, almost as bad as alcohol.

Combine these facts and stats and you see that (A) There are far more drug users than we admit out there; (B) They're doing fine, holding jobs, raising kids, snorting on the weekends and trooping back to work like the rest of us. They just have a better time on the weekends than you booze-suckers.

Comments

[stonecollector.livejournal.com]

shit, and i was starting to take comfort in my fate as a hooker with a heart of gold... i mean coke.

They just have a better time on the weekends

[pamc.livejournal.com]

Hunter S Thompson

nuff said

[spencert.livejournal.com]

The Random House story is a hoax, apparently.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

i read that it wasn't a "hoax" so much as "this is true for every book they publish"....

[capitalism-yeah.livejournal.com]

I don't buy the Northern Italy study;

My people were constantly conquered by power-after-power. I'm in America because the ultimate resolution drained much of the power from a once-powerful-family...
and lemme tell ya: a little coke mighta helped us avoid having to pussy-out and emigrate to Switzerland, Australia and the US.

I'm just sayin'...

:-)