Martin Shkreli, who raised the price of a life-saving drug 5,500 percent, takes the Fifth before a congressional committee. —News reports
Whose smirk enraged us on the telly? Whose practices are worse than smelly? Who’s lower than a serpent’s belly? The pharmagouger Martin Shkreli.
The other pharma chiefs can heed Where public outcries sometimes lead. They all devoutly wish that he’d Placed modest limits on his greed.
Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”