Lie Tech

February, 1986

For a while now, I've been working my personal relationships on the assumption that everybody knows everything at all times. A wild hypothesis, maybe; but I've tested this one in a lot of situations, and it pans out amazingly well. As far as I can tell, it's especially true between men and women; but it holds among all of us, really, and what it seems to mean is that you can cheat and lie or not cheat and not lie, and the only difference is that if you do, you'll be known for it, and if you don'...