Celebrated Frauds

So, your mom's got a Betty Crocker cookbook. So do 55 million others. But did you know Betty never existed? The people at Gold Medal flour invented ...

An April Fools Day Gag

So, where's spaghetti come from, anyway? Would you believe a spaghetti farm?!

Maybe you wouldn't believe it, but many did. Just ask the thousands of Englishmen ...

Success Can Be Deceptive

The comedy film Cool Runnings is about the first Jamaican bobsled team to go to the Olympics. John Candy plays a former American gold medalist who becomes ...

Top 10 Lies

Leonard Sweet, in his Soul Cafe newsletter, included this list of "Top 10 Liars' Lies": 10. We'll stay only five minutes. 9. This will be a short meeting. ...

The Prevalence of Resume Falsification

In the July 15, 1993 Boardroom Reports, Peter LeVine writes: "When the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey ran a help-wanted ad for electricians ...

Honesty Is the Best Policy

Coming home from work, a woman stopped at the corner deli to buy a chicken for supper. The butcher reached into a barrel, grabbed the last chicken he ...

There Are No Little White Lies

To lie a little is not possible; whoever lies, lies a whole lie.

Adjusting Ethical Standards Downward

When I was a teenager, I wasn't a Christian, and I grew up before the sexual revolution. I grew up when it was still considered a matter of ethics ...

The Comfort of Truth-Telling

Telling the truth makes life simpler and more comfortable. If you don't, you have to struggle to keep your stories straight, trying to remember what-all ...

Satan's Two Big Lies

There are two big lies that Satan has been perpetrating ever since the Garden of Eden. The first is that God is mean, vindictive, a spoilsport whose main ...