The Best Things in Life Aren't Free

My first reaction was: what was he thinking? Just as Viagra mania was receding, along comes Ace Greenberg, the chairman of Bear, Stearns & Co., donating $1 million to give the drug to patients unable to afford it.

True, being poor and impotent in a society obsessed with money and sex is awful to bear, but there must be a more pressing use of a spare million than erections for the downtrodden. The good that Viagra for the Poor might do was immediately offset by another round of bad Viagra humor--tales that walking past all those signs saying WILL WORK FOR...

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