Lying is in the news these days. You know, of course, about Brian Williams, the NBC news anchor who -- how can I say this tactfully? -- shaded his coverage of being in a helicopter that was hit by enemy fire in the Mideast, when in reality he was in a different chopper that didn’t get hit by anything other than a blast of Williams’ own hot air. That cost him his job, at least for six months, as NBC suspended him for that period of time.