Good humor is based in truth, so a joke I read has me thinking. The gist of it is that a guy buys a donkey that dies. He can’t get his money back, so he raffles off the donkey – without mentioning 
its demise – at $2 a ticket and sells 500 tickets. The only one to complain about the donkey being dead was the eventual winner, so the guy gave the winner his money back and kept the rest. The punch line is that he "eventually became chairman of Enron."
It seems that so many businesses are selling dead donkeys – inferior products, worthless investments, fictitious accounting. They know some people will be mad, they know there may be a fine or settlement along the line, but then they get to keep the rest and go on their merry way. And there ain’t nothing funny about that.
