Book Makes Adultery Polite

Judith E. Brandt has written a book called The 50-Mile Rule: Your Guide to Infidelity and Extramarital Etiquette. Here is an excerpt of an interview Brandt ...

Renowned Author Caught Lying

Even before historian Joseph Ellis became a best-selling author, he was famous for his vivid lectures. In his popular courses at the exclusive Mount Holyoke ...

The Biggest Lies

Some of the biggest lies ever told:

The check is in the mail.

You get this one; I'll pay next time.

My wife doesn't understand me.

Trust me, I'll ...

Deception in Hollywood

Film producer Linda Obst (Sleepless in Seattle and Contact) commented on the rampant deception that permeates Hollywood culture: “Inhale. Lie. Exhale. ...

Money Draws Flies

The Chicago Tribune (9/1/96) ran the story of Buddy Post, "living proof that money can't buy happiness." In 1988, he won $16.2 million in the Pennsylvania ...

Lies and Relics

What lies there are about relics! One claims to have a feather from the wing of the angel Gabriel, and the Bishop of Mainz has a flame from Moses' ...

The Trouble with Lying

No one has a good enough memory to lie.

Making a Basket from Out of Bounds

At a girls' basketball game recently, in the last seconds of the game, a girl threw a basketball the entire length of a basketball court and she made ...

Saying What Sells

In the classroom setting of one Peanuts comic strip, on the first day of the new school year, the students were told to write an essay about returning ...

The New Doublespeak

In The New Doublespeak: Why No One Knows What Anyone's Saying Anymore, author William Lutz defines a few of the more creative doublespeak terms currently ...