Craigslist Files #51: More Fantasy

Possibly my favorite thing about craigslist is how it creates a venue for completely irrational thinking while maintaining the illusion, or even the actual possibility, that the post might actually work. Whether it's an obviously worthless business proposition, a roundly unappealing romantic engagement or an indulgence of pure fiction, craigslist provides a market where anything, no matter how unlikely, might just come to pass. It's simultaneously sad and inspiring. After all, just because none of the following posts appeal to me personally, my last lingering shred of optimism likes the idea that they serve a small collection of strange, desperate people who really need something impossible.

"if you are looking for a chinese wife - 42"
I live in china but would like to relocate in USA for the right man. it will take 10 months for me to get visa to USA if you have patient.
if you are a single, honest, responsible white man, have stable job and income, please reply with your picture.

While I seriously doubt that whoever made this post is actually in China, I have to commend the layers of lateral thinking required to construct this glaring scam. Most romance frauds pretend to be pert, 19-year-old girls with insatiable sex drives. That this scammer chose to go after the demographic that is willing to settle for a middle aged stranger who is certain to cost them money is really a stroke of genius. I also doubt that anybody actually responded to this post, but if someone did and he got wrangled into the scam I'm sure the next ten months will be the happiest of his life, only to be followed by what will likely be the last in a long series of crushing disappointments. Having fun yet?

Demons
Are ghosts, hauntings or other hard to explain activities a concern?
A local ordained minister specializing in the fields of para-psycology and demonology may be able to help.
All information is kept in the strictest of confidentiality.

Well no, ghosts, hauntings or other hard to explain activities aren't a concern because none of them are real and I'm not currently making a movie about those things. Still, if I were a moron with little more than a nominal sense of critical thinking, it would probably bring me great comfort to know that some wacky Internet minister is running around my city pretending to banish invisible monsters. Sure, I might be a little put off by his inability to spell "psychology" correctly, but then again if I believed in ghosts and demons I probably wouldn't know how to spell, either.

Unemployed? Take advantage of it!
So now you have an opportunity to make big money. I am looking for a co-writer for a Science Fiction best seller for sure. Based mostly on true experiences projected into the near future, the plot and the substance of the story are unique. Search the web with the keywords “Scitrek and Genesis”. But I am a scientist, not a writer. I have a completed manuscript, though.
To be my partner, you cannot be a religious person, for I condemn religion. You cannot be an advocate of our government by representation because I believe in the power of the people. You must believe that profiteering and plutocracy are the people’s principal enemies. You must believe that government is incapable of providing protection to individuals.
Tell me why you thing you can be an asset to this ideological story.

If there's one thing I like, it's a hollow promise of riches in a field where it's practically impossible to make even a decent living in the first place. What's even better is when that promise comes with loads of idiotic ideological baggage and what guarantees to be an abrasive, rambling crazy person. For a while now I've believed that while pants-on-head stupidity is a bad thing, it's much worse for someone to be both stupid and partially informed. The jerk who made this post almost certainly spent some time in college but he obviously came out no smarter. At best, I'm sure his manuscript is some incomprehensible collection of self-contradictory sermons with a little lip service to space ships and lasers thrown in.