The New Bad Guys
Hollywood has discovered the new film bad guys. Tired of Evil Drug Lords? Can't quite make Republicans evil and still get them to buy tickets? Evil Lawyers too boring? Afraid of calling terrorists evil?
Have no fear, the Evil Pharmaceutical Corporation is here to perform All the Evil In the Worldtm. The trailer for the upcoming film was so unnoticable that I can't even recall the title but in it Rampaging Drug Companies are killing people in Third World villages for profit.
Wall Street Journal reports that profits for Mega Zuess Drug and Influence Peddlers, Inc. rose for the second straight quarter due largely to a sharp increase in the deaths of villagers in remote locations. "Nothing pays like death," remarked CEO Cash N. Kerry. "Monkeys are too expensive for testing whereas dark-skinned villagers? Who cares?"
I mean, we all know that drug companies should exist for the good of the people, except for, you know, the people who own the company. They don't count as people.
And the deaths of untold millions due to malaria? Those deaths are clearly laid at the feet of the drug companies, not the Only Trying To Help activists who lied to get DDT banned. Of course they are.
UPDATE: The film is called The Constant Gardener. An intriguing title but I'm afraid that will be the most it has going for it.