Everyone's A Liar

About George Washington: That "cherry tree thing" was a lie!

Day before yesterday I spent a small fortune on a pair of prescription sunglasses. I was told by the friendly optician that my lenses were being made in Germany by the master craftsmen at Zeiss. Or maybe it was Switzerland, who knows. Anyway, they are master craftsmen wherever they are and they make each lens with unbelievable precision, and not only that but my personal initials are cut into each lens! How about that? For such excellence I would have to wait about 10 days to two weeks for my glasses, which of course is only reasonable. So imagine my surprise when I got a call today, a mere 48 hours later, telling me my glasses are ready.

I sputtered about how that couldn't be possible and just getting them here would take longer, not to mention making them, etc., etc. The answer was gobbledygook, but anyway they are ready.

Earlier today I read about an award-winning journalist in Germany -- just a coincidence -- who was found to have been fabricating stories for the even more award-winning weekly news magazine Der Speigel for several years. After a co-worker outed him, he resigned in disgrace. That guy should come to America where lying journalists, like Brian Williams, get brand new jobs after just a slap on the wrist and a year off. And lying opticians make a bundle on glasses they make in their own backyard but tell you they get made in Europe.

And FYI: That whole story we were taught about how George Washington couldn't tell a lie to his father about cutting down the cherry tree was a myth fabricated by Washington's biographer in order to sell more books. What's next, no Santa Claus?