I do feel some modicum of sympathy for the miscreants who get embroiled in these huge online scandals

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Recently, I read this story about a USC cornerback, Josh Shaw, who lied about how he injured his ankles. He claimed that he injured them while saving his nephew from drowning. And that story was so deliciously heroic that it became national news. But the real story was something sordid involving the police behind called t…