Further proof that humanity can't get it's act together

Courtesy of tonight's Daily Show (I'll post the link if they become available):

1) an MSNBC piece on McDonald's healthy choice menu and the shift in the types of food offered is fine and all, but when one of the invited guest you bring onto the show to comment on it is an actor playing Ronald McDonald (with the title "Chief Happiness Officer"), that's just pathetic. Hard-hitting journalism on MSNBC, brought to you by the people who interview fictional corporate mascots as legitimate commentators...

2) There are commercials in China selling machines that offer to stretch a person's spine in order to gain a few inches in height (in the hopes, of I don't know, beating the US Dream Team in basketball?!). Yeah, I don't think those are new. I think we had a word for it....oh, right, THE RACK!

3) If you don't like the new and improved the "Rack 3000," there are surgical procedures in China where they basically saw off off your leg mid-calf and extend your legs with an iron rod and attach it to both ends of your legs with pins...Wow, it's like the 6 million dollar man...except for 20 bucks...

Seriously, I'm quitting this species.