With all that’s going on in the world these days, it was with a little chuckle and then a sigh that I pulled a piece of mail from our box the other day. A glossy two-sided brochure inviting me as a neighbor to an old-style tent revival on State Street in Canton. The slick little document had pictures of various world political and religious leaders (somebody might want to tell its author that the Ayatollah Khomeini has been dead for 20 years) with some military vehicles and a scary Hammurabi-looking totem all over a backdrop of what can be assumed to be an apocalyptic fire. The title of the presentation is “Answers for America.” Information about the presenter is given and it is made clear that all are welcome at what can only be interpreted as a real Elmer Gantry event. My chuckle derived from P.T. Barnum's famous quote as I prepared to put the pamphlet in with other such unsolicited junk mail, but I couldn’t help but sigh as I thought to myself that in a world full of climate-deniers and folks who still don’t believe in evolution, that snake oil salesmen can still ply their trade.