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Aug.11.2012
In the pantheon of right-wing dog whistles, none is as tried, true, and generally effective as “welfare” bashing. Ever since the days of Ronald Reagan, who fabricated tales of a “welfare queen” collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash benefits by using multiple identities and Social...
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Jul.19.2012
Russell Wasendorf, Senior, Peregrine CEO, stole over 100,000,000 USD from his customers. He began the practice in 1993, shortly after starting the company. They found Russell out not long ago, and he confessed much in his suicide note. His suicide didn't go as planned, however, so now he's around...
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May.26.2012
Is it possible to be the CEO of Paypal and that's just not enough? You'd still need to pad and pump yourself up bigger than you already are?
I guess so.
The CEO of Yahoo was recently fired for stating he had an accounting degree and a computer science degree when, in fact, he only had an...
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Feb.09.2012
"He will 'distort reality...to achieve his goals'".
Is that an inane statement, or what? Isn't that just a polite way to say, he'll lie?
Who are we talking about? Who is it that will lie? I imagine many people will distort reality to achieve their goals. Take the guy at the bar chatting up a...
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Nov.08.2011
I think we spend a lot more time kidding ourselves than we spend trying to deliberately kid other people, if only because it feels better. Few people like that awful feeling of telling a deliberate lie.
When you convince yourself an idea is correct, it just doesn't feel like lying when...
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Aug.30.2011
"You're not as pretty as me."
It was a simple, declarative statement. I knew what it meant and how to translate it: my three-year-old, wearing a new, comically puffy cloud of pink tutu for ballet class wanted to be fully admired. To my daughter, the bulging crinoline hands down, was the most...
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Jul.31.2011
To tell or not to tell?
“Oh my God, you look fabulous!” all six of us exclaim to our friend, Jennifer, whose wedding is in two days.
We’re gathered for her pre-bridal party at a tony restaurant in NYC and we haven’t seen the “bride-to-be-second-time-around” for over three years while she was...
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Apr.26.2011
In the 1978 film, Superman, there's a scene in which the guy in the blue tights and red cape is with Lois Lane up on her balcony, giving his first interview. The two have this exchange:
Lois Lane: I mean, why are you here? There must be a reason.Superman: Yes. I'm here to fight for truth,...
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Jul.21.2009
When I was a kid, I told lies to gullible baby sitters. "My Dad and Mom are divorced. My real Mom moved to Des Moines and won't tell me what she does. I think she might be an artist, but I'm not sure. I visited her once and she didn't let me see where she lived. She made me...
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Jul.01.2009
Sometimes my mind works on and niggles at odd things. This can be anything from the small, inconsequential though baffling hot dog-hot dog bun packaging disparity, to larger, more lofty odd questions regarding life and the universe. Most of the time, the things I ask myself about are somewhere...
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