A TINY LITTLE SPEEDBUMP ON THE ROAD TO APOCALYPSE

Hey! Maybe humanity isn’t entirely insane! Last week the company which had been offering to clone your cat for a cool 50 grand has closed its doors due to lack of interest. The biotech firm Genetic Savings and Clone announced the end of business in a press release which explained that they are “unable to develop the technology to the point that cloning pets is commercially viable.” What they meant to say is that they couldn’t find enough suckers to spring for a cloned cat even after they dropped their price to $32,000 per cat. Since opening for business in 2000 the company has created five cloned cats and sold only two. Animal rights activists were elated to hear the news. “We’re very pleased that Genetics Savings and Clone’s attempt to run a cloning pet store was a spectacular flop,” said Wayne Pacelle, head of the Humane Society of the United States. “It’s not just a bad business venture, but also an operation grounded on the misuse of animals.” (AP)