Did you think that the media had exhausted, then flogged to death, then reanimated as a ghost, then exorcised with Santeria all the "how the recession is effecting our lives" reportage? You naive innocent thing! There are a few more stones left to be unturned, apparently, like the disturbing epidemic we're apprised of by today's Times: Candy stores and companies are reporting big sales, since "sugar lifts spirits dragged low by the languishing economy."