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The first time I heard the word "mendacity" was in the film "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." I loved the way Burl Ives's character spits out the word as something vile and unacceptable. Unfortunately, we live in a society where untruthfulness is routinely accepted and even mandated by politicians, union leaders, and members of the press. New York is the headquarters of the biggest producer of mendacity, the New York Times. Fortunately, it's also the home of the antidote, Lucianne.com.

Lucianne Goldberg took a substantial amount of criticism when she shut down the Terri Schiavo threads at Lucianne.com during the height of the coverage. The death last week of her husband Sidney allows a bit more light to be shed on that decision. What follows is an email I received from a member of the L.com staff, in response to a tribute I had written on my blog, Cheer up! Life Isn’t Everything which had also been linked from a Free Republic condolence thread: Sidney's hospitalization began the same week the Terry Schiavo situation hit the national media. Imagine having...

Ldotter Note: Due to the passing of my beloved husband, Sidney, we have suspended out Must-Read section for today and tomorrow. This lovely post was written on NRO's The Corner by John Podhoretz. -Lucianne Goldberg SIDNEY GOLDBERG Kind, friendly, amusing, amused, thoughtful, loving, clever, dapper, jaunty, principled, intellectually engaged, politically astute, wise. Sid was the ultimate mensch. I loved him, my wife loved him, our baby daughter loved him, everybody loved him, and the world is a smaller and colder and meaner place today without him.

That Damn Little Car We have been running an annoying ad for General Motors. Annoying, at least, to those of you who don't know how to disable it. As we don't know what kind of computer every individual has, we are recommending, those of you who don't know how to adjust your settings, ask someone who does. The ad will run for another week or so and we can live without the E mail about it. We privately fund this site so that we can provide it to you for free and while we most appreciate your contributions they, in...