Today in Ben Steinery

Ben Stein sets the record straight:

I'm not much of a believer in conspiracy theories. I've seen up close and personal how wrong they were in the case of my old boss, Richard M. Nixon. He was not a criminal mastermind. He was not paying attention to a bunch of juvenile delinquent aides and they did him dirt. It was a case of an absent minded father, not a KGB plot.

The above is why Barry Ritholtz calls the act of uttering any particularly pungent untruth, Ben Steinery.