In an act of naked self interest, I’m taking a little bandwidth to announce the release of my newest book. "Shooting The Bull" is a field guide to identifying political lies in real-time. The goal is to sharpen everybody's B.S. detectors. I was honored to have a tenured professor of communications contribute a foreword (Brian Patrick, whose book "Rise of the Anti-media" is well worth a read, though its academic pricing makes it a library request). His foreword accurately started: In earlier centuries Guy Smith would have been designated a heretic and condemned to burn at the stake, unless of...