The Cost of One's Soul

Has to be higher than this

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I received this e-mail yesterday from an American-Romanian outfit, and gmail helpfully flagged it as spam.

I'd be lying if I wrote that I wouldn't like to make some coin from this deiversion, but the chances of this inquiry being legitimate is too low to make the solicitation worth considering.

Also, if the "ad agency" had actually read any of my posts, they would know that I do not offer the best forum for discussions of things that are going just fine. I just couldn't live with myself if I got less poor by betraying my generally gloomy vision of mankind.

Maybe these guys should contact me. Take special note of the Oxfam link at the top righthand corner of The Apocolypse Times site. Apparently, just because it's the end times doesn't mean that we can't help some of the folks bearing the brunt of the attack of the Four Horsemen.