Understanding the pathological liar

I dated two of them! One was a lawyer, so I’m not sure that counts.

Four years of high school and a steady dose of reality television have made Americans pretty adept at spotting liars. Everyone seems to know at least one person who compulsively flip flops — who twists the truth either for their own gain or, more maliciously, for someone else’s destruction. We call these people, of course, pathological…

2 thoughts on “Understanding the pathological liar

  1. I’ll finish the mint chocolate chip ice cream tonight and hope to progress to the millions quickly.

  2. I don’t like this underlying assumption in the post that the poor and disadvantaged are the biggest liars.
    Maybe they do, but my worst and most common experiences with pathological liars are lawyers, accountants (at least the big shots who make big bucks), business majors, cops, conservatives in general (and the more vocal they are, the more they are lying, because a lie is much more convince when it is loud and/or aggressive and accusatory).
    Basically the whole business community and every alpha male shitbag.

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