Silverday

It's Monday AGAIN and I've a full day of rehab appointments and other doctor shit ahead of me. I'm going to avoid the news in hopes of keeping my spirits, my energy up and at 'em. In fact, I'm going to give all unpleasantness a hard pass. That's unrealistic, you say? You can't live in a fantasy world, you add with no small concern.

Watch me! Also, CHILL. It's just for one day. I'll rejoin the wider reality realms mañana.

 Meanwhile, here, have some thoughts about liars. 

The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with lies than most people, too. You'd think they'd be on the look-out for lies, but they seem to be the very ones that will believe almost anything at all.
~ Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man

Choose your leaders
with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward
is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool
is to be led
by the opportunists
who control the fool.
To be led by a thief
is to offer up
your most precious treasures
to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask
to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant
is to sell yourself
and those you love
into slavery.
~ Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

Cathy's lies were never innocent. Their purpose was to escape punishment, or work, or responsibility, and they were used for profit. Most liars are tripped up either because they forget what they have told or because the lie is suddenly faced with an incontrovertible truth. But Cathy did not forget her lies, and she developed the most effective method of lying. She stayed close enough to the truth so that one could never be sure. She knew two other methods also -- either to interlard her lies with truth or to tell a truth as though it were a lie. If one is accused of a lie and it turns out to be the truth, there is a backlog that will last a long time and protect a number of untruths.
~ John Steinbeck, East of Eden

The clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers.
~ George Eliot

What I admire most about Republicans is that they never run out of lies.
~ Oliver Markus Malloy, American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning To America

Pathological liars call a situation a "misunderstanding" most especially when their deceptions return to them as karmic whirlwind.
~ Angelica Hopes