High fuel prices had driven the poseurs from the sector, while traditional buyers were crushed by the credit crunch and the implosion of the building industry.
In a recent Forbes post, Tara Tiger Brown argues that fake geeks and poseurs of all stripes should just butt out of her world and stop trying to pretend.
To these boneheads we now add Rod Blagojevich and his bribe scandal, which lends weight to the idea that government has never been run by poseurs, windbags, sociopaths and self-dealers to the extent that it is today.