Pinocchio

Lies, lies, lies. What causes the impulse to lie even when no lie is needed? I read that Bush's Press Secretary blamed the President's fall from a mountain bike on recent heavy rain. Trouble is - you guessed it - there hadn't been any recent rain in Crawford.

If you saw Disney's Pinocchio you know why Dick Nixon was often portrayed with an ever lengthening nose. You are a rare bird indeed, however, if you are familiar with the original book serialized in Italy in 1881. The New York Review of Books and Alison Lurie, English Professor at Cornell give us the skinny here.