Eric Olsen has a long post in which he sets himself up as some sort of expert on lying, but I suspect he’s full of shit. Don’t take my word for it, though. I’ve never told the truth in my life.

Oh, and speaking of important life lessons I’ve learned from repeated viewings of the Karate Kid — I was just thinking the other day that had Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) not had Mr. Miyagi (Noriyuki “Pat” Morita) to help him through that frightening period of new kid-hazing (Daniel moved to the Valley from Newark, NJ, you’ll remember — quite a change in both climate and culture), he’d have been a prime candidate to exploit the “gun show loophole,” buy himself an “assault rifle,” come to school one day armed to the teeth, and proceed to slaughter his golden tormentors in a hail of righteous, semi-automatic weapons fire.

Thank goodness for the wisdom and patience of elderly Asian handymen, is all I have to say.

Oh, and Elisabeth Shue. Thank goodness for her, too.