What a country!

There's a Russian comedian, I forget his name, who was popular a while back and whose punch line, in comparing the U.S. to the Soviet Union, was "What a country!" He comes to mind as I read my email this week:

• I'm the winner in half a dozen lucrative lotteries, making millions of dollars
• I am offered several PhD's of my choice "with no study required!"
• I am offered all variety of pills, lotions and gadgets to increase the size of my penis
• I am offered extraordinary savings on Viagra and its various clones
• I am sought after as the American representative of several foreign businesses
• I am invited to write for secrets on how not to pay taxes ever again
• And this is just the stuff that got through the spam filters!
  

What a country!