I used to reserve special disdain for tobacco industry executives and their apologists. They sold sickness and death, and smiled as they lied about their business.
Lately, I've shifted my contempt to the deceivers running rampant in a much more dangerous enterprise: government. Next to politicians and the people who speak for them, corporate PR folks - even the semi-reformed tobacco peddlers, who now at least acknowledge what their product does - look a lot better.
This is not a rant against ...