Yes, you're right of course. On an open highway on a clear day, I tend to drive five or ten kms/hr over the speed limit - what right have I to complain then, about someone driving 100 kms/hr over the speed limit down a residential street where children play? And once as a schoolboy, I knowingly kept a textbook that belonged to my school - so I certainly won't call the police if someone breaks into my house and steals everything of value that I own. I once told an acquaintance that I was too busy to go out and have a drink, when I wasn't - far be it from me to protest then, when a contractor absconds with money of mine which he told me he was going to use to buy materials for my house. In a fit of anger, I kicked a dog, so if some thug in a fit of anger kicks my head in, don't expect me to lay charges. That would be to "cast the first stone". And, to the matter at hand, I once prepared a resume on which I indicated I held a certain job during "the summer" of 1977, when in fact I had only held the job for six weeks of that summer, and had spent three or four weeks in idleness. I see now that this is really no different than a lying claim to have earned a graduate degree.

Yes, there IS a certain whiff in the air ...