August 15, 2008 Archives

The bizarre tale of "Clark Rockefeller," a con artist wanted for abducting his child, continues, as police link him to the 1985 disappearance of a couple in California.

If you’re a pathological liar, you likely have 26 percent more white brain matter, and 14 percent less gray matter, than average folk. That means you are a natural, as elegant with lies as Tiger Woods with his swing. Less gray matter, some doctors believe, helps lower your moral inhibitions; more white matter suggests you’re hyper-wired to manipulate one of those suckers born every minute. I bring this up because every year or so, like clockwork, a breathtakingly fantastic impostor makes the news.