Honesty may be the best policy now more than ever.
Lance Armstrong's confession and the Te'o girlfriend hoax are just the latest in a long line of public revelations reminding us that some things are not all they're cracked up to be – and in fact may be the polar opposite of what we thought they were. Long-running symbols of success, such as Armstrong or the Penn State football dynasty, are exposed as charlatans or as such masters of the cover-up it would make Nixon blush. John Edwards, Arnold Schwarzenegger … who can count the number of politicians touting family values who have betrayed their own families?
