I've lied before.
Of course, that was all before I grew up a lot and realized how lies can hurt a whole lot of folks.

You can wipe that look off your face because ... you know ... you've lied, too.

Don't lie. You know you have!

And because you and I both know, from experience, that when we were caught in a lie ... no matter how young or old we were (and there was no way out because everybody involved knew we'd lied) ... we came clean.
There was nothing else for us to do but apologize and come clean.

Which is why I don't understand Kwame Kilpatrick or Roger Clemens.
Yeah, THAT Kwame Kilpatrick, the Mayor of Detroit. My Alpha frat brother.
And THAT Roger Clemens, one of the best pitchers of all time, and a guy who was ... I stress was ... going to the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame one day.

Anybody with a pulse in this country who's heard all the stories surrounding Kwame and Clemens lately must be wondering what the hell are these guys thinking.

During a recent trial in a civil suit brought against the city by two cops who felt they were wrongly fired by the mayor, Kilpatrick testified that he'd never had an affair with his former Chief of Staff, Christine Beatty.

He also testified that one of the cops, who'd been investigating an alleged wild party at the mayoral mansion (that also allegedly involved strippers ... one of whom is now mysteriously dead) wasn't fired, but had merely been reassigned.

But once outside the courtroom, the cop's lawyer revealed to the mayor's attorneys that he had dug up text messages between Kilpatrick and Beatty ... indisputable evidence that not only proved they were sleeping together, but that both were responsible for the cops losing their jobs, too.

At that, Kilpatrick hastily ordered his lawyers to settle the case with over $8 million in taxpayer's money in a settlement that included a "secret deal" to keep the text messages forever hidden.

Documentation of that secret deal is now all over the place.
Even homeless people and crackheads on the streets of Detroit have a copy of it.

But Kilpatrick and all those worthless lawyers he's paying ... including the city's attorneys, who are nothing more than his pawns ...  are still saying there never was any secret deal.

My mama had a saying: "I may not be the smartest person in the world, but that don't mean I'm stupid."

Which brings me to Clemens, one of the greatest pitchers baseball has ever seen, who testified before congress a few weeks ago that he has never taken performance enhancing drugs ... that's steroids for you people who like to cut right to the chase.

The Rocket couldn't explain how his former personal trainer has solid evidence that he injected Clemens with steroids on numerous occasions.
And he also now can't explain how his picture was taken at a party thrown by admitted major league baseball steroids user Jose Canseco, who said he gave Clemens 'roids at that party.

Clemens says screw the picture ... he was never at that party!

Hmph.
Probably was some guy impersonating him. Ya know?
There's a lot of that going around these days.
People who look just like you ... exactly like you, as a matter of fact ... just walking around the streets saying they're you.