In a highly divided country, partisans seek out proof that the other side is lying, sending it viral, but mostly in a way that lands on the choir.
(No Lie sends customers to an independent imaging center in Tarzana, a suburb of Los Angeles, to insure that "quality testing occurs according to standardized test protocols").
With the bishops sending one message and lay Catholics sending another, politicians may have the unenviable task of choosing between the official capital "C" Church hierarchy represented by the bishops and the lower case "c" church represented by the laity.
But on Friday, when its rabbis and lay leaders sent out an e-mail enthusiastically supporting the vote by the United Nations to upgrade Palestine to a nonmember observer state, the statement was more than even some of its famously liberal congregants could stomach.
He said Will Straw, the director of the remain campaign, had been so uncertain where her true loyalties lay, he sent a text asking: "Are we sure May's not an agent for the other side!?" May, who was then home secretary, came out for remaining in the EU early on but kept a low profile in the referendum and made only one public intervention in favour of the in campaign.
It is only two years since Weiner was forced to resign after lying about sending sexually explicit photographs of himself to women, and the poll findings show there is little sign that the electorate has forgiven him.
Representative Anthony D. Weiner, a rising star in Democratic politics who many believed would be the next mayor of New York City, admitted on Monday to having had inappropriate online exchanges with at least six women, and repeatedly lying about sending a sexually suggestive photograph to a young woman over Twitter last month.
China's most important step lately, but also the hardest to fine-tune to avoid overdoing, lies in sending the police and prosecutors after local officials who have gone on pursuing grandiose projects despite warnings since June from senior economic officials in Beijing.
Steve Fuller, thankfully, wouldn't let it lie, and sent a response in which he bemoaned the fact that he couldn't offer an exotic mental pathology named after Grayling, but instead offered a recipe for an AC Grayling review: 1. Flip book's pages to find names of philosophers.
Rather than squabbling about a third or half of a sentence, we should admit that the real problem lies in sending too many people – and the wrong people – to prison in the first instance, and we should push for more courageous sentencing that would keep people out of jail altogether.
It is behind many efforts to suppress the voting rights of millions of Americans, using fear and lies to send a false message.
