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September 25, 2005

A fourth kind of lie Mark Twain would have enumerated

Mark Twain wrote in his autobiography, of lies:

Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."

I believe he would have enumerated RCPD, and indeed Rancho Cordova City Council cited statistics collected since 2003, as a fourth.

Posted by cystdog at September 25, 2005 03:05 PM