Didn't anyone read "The Sneetches"?

Aside from its anti-discrimination lesson, the image of the sneetches lining up to go through the star-putter-on-er machine and then right into the star-taker-off-er machine and then back to the first was burnt into my brain as a 4 year old. Didn't the Sneetches see it was dumb to pay for something to be done, then pay for it to be undone, and then re-done?

Yet we have nicorette and nicotine, Big Macs and Jenny Craig, tanning beds and plastic surgeons, all in harmonic co-existence, while the weak willed and simple minded are fleeced at every turn. I'd really like to believe that people, as a whole, aren't total idiots. But the evidence doesn't seem to support that hypothesis.

Maybe I can come up with an "herbal" remedy that makes you thin, beautiful, smart, rich and popular. For only $29.99.