snakes

Did you know that snake oil "does actually have some health benefits" -- provided it's the genuine article?

"A search for 'snake oil' on Amazon," Ella Morton reports, "yields 2,716 hits, many of them not liquid, but 16 oils sit under the 'beauty' category alone. And that's not counting all the non-medicinal variants, like the snake oil you can buy as a 'gun lubricant.' " For Ella's report on this particular product, see below.by KenThese days when I think of "snake oil," I think of it as the lubricant, if not the actual substance, of American political discourse.