Thursday, March 27, 2008

The Quick and the Dead: Cashing in on Recession

 
Using religion as as model to predict that desperate people will buy anything that even seems to offer answers, publishers are scrambling to bang out some self-help snake oil for the recession with titles like "How Losing Your Life Savings Will Leave You With Anal Herpes" and "The Cheney Effect: Why That Sucking Sound You Hear is Your Po' Ass Being Flushed Down Haliburton's Public Pay Toilet" and "Why that 29$ Bucks You Just Spent on an MBA Dropout's Best Guess Will Save You From Forfeiting Your Children to an Illegal Alien Repoman", to name a few.

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