<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px; word-wrap: break-word; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: auto !important;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Martin Shkreli, who raised the price of a life-saving drug 5,500 percent, takes the Fifth before a congressional committee. —News reports</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px; word-wrap: break-word; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: auto !important;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">----------------------------------</em></p><h1 class="title" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: 'Mercury Display A', 'Mercury Display B'; font-size: 57.985px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 61.036px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; text-rendering: auto !important;">Villain of the Month</h1><h2 class="subtitle" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: 'Mercury Display A', 'Mercury Display B'; font-size: 29.69px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; margin: 0.2rem 0px 0.5rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 39.06px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; text-rendering: auto !important;"></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px; word-wrap: break-word; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: auto !important;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></em></p><div class="byline" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: 'Mercury Display A', 'Mercury Display B'; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><h2 class="author_name" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 29.69px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(163, 158, 152); line-height: 1.4; float: left; text-rendering: auto !important; margin: 0px !important;">By <a class="author" href="http://www.thenation.com/authors/calvin-trillin/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(163, 158, 152); text-decoration: none; line-height: 20px; opacity: 1; outline: 0px !important;">Calvin Trillin</a></h2></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px; word-wrap: break-word; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: auto !important;"><br></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px; word-wrap: break-word; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: auto !important;"><br></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px; word-wrap: break-word; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: auto !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Whose smirk enraged us on the telly?</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Whose practices are worse than smelly?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Who’s lower than a serpent’s belly?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">The pharmagouger Martin Shkreli. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px; word-wrap: break-word; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: auto !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The other pharma chiefs can heed<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Where public outcries sometimes lead.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">They all devoutly wish that he’d<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Placed modest limits on his greed.</span><span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: 'Mercury Display A', 'Mercury Display B'; font-size: 20px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px; word-wrap: break-word; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: auto !important;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">----------------------------------</em></p><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon</span></div></div></body></html>