Open thread for night owls: Shameless liars | International News Live Blog

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At The Baffler, Justin Clark writes—Shameless Liars: When “pathological” lying and fake news plagued the nation: Toward the end of the 1800s, an insane asylum physician in Zurich discovered a surprising tendency among his patients. One, an Austrian maid, had spent years wandering the countryside, claiming to be royalty. A … http://internationalnewslive.com/open-thread-for-night-owls-shameless-liars/