“A lie gets halfway around the world before truth has a chance to get its pants on.” —Winston Churchill

Misinformation, disinformation, deception, dissembling, lying and bullshit. Print, digital, and audio and visual media are seemingly saturated by it all—on matters grave and mundane—and yet for many it’s shrugged off with an ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on attitude. President Thomas Jefferson, for whom eternal vigilance is the price of liberty and legitimate government depends on the consent of the governed, would be none too pleased.