News Quirks by Roland Sweet and News of the Weird headlined this truly amazing story of an entire town following faith-based reasoning (“because I said so”).

Sausalito, California voters in March 2002 refused to approve the construction of a $7.8 million police station, in part on the advice of a McFengshui consultant, Ms. Sidney Nancy Bennett, who said the proposed building would "cut off the mouth of chi" and compromise "the arrows of sha." (You want those “arrows of sha,” it seems.)

Too bad the people who backed construction of the building didn’t hire a REAL practitioner.

Evidently there are a lot of well-educated people in Sausalito who would not know authentic feng shui if it came up and asked them to sign a petition banning dihydrogen monoxide.

After Sausalito, then what?

The McFengshui crowd has the answer (of course).

No longer able to command hefty fees for enhancing your wealth corner (which worked only for them), they’ve come up with another successful scheme to separate you from your money: Fashion feng shui!

Get your hair styled with wind and water (blow dry and shampoo, not necessarily in that order) and spend much more money just to tell your friends you had a feng shui ‘do.

This is marketing and gimmickry, plain and simple. But if you’re from Sausalito, you don’t know any better.