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Make That English Degree Work For You

By The Daily Dish
Sep 16 2008, 9:06 AM ET

Ezra Klein has an idea:

I've always thought that the next frontier in vanity industries should be commissioned biographies. Someone should set up a company employing out-of-work, or in-school, writers, and charge $30-$40,000 for beautifully bound, broadly positive, built-to-order biographies. They can even include some pictures. That way, you not only live forever, but get to control your story after you're gone. It's the perfect gift for the man who has everything but literal immortality.

And it can be full of lies! Just make it all up. That's what our national politicians do, isn't it?



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