Enough of you have been emailing to ask why I wants to know about lying and DNA testing and race that I feel I should offer some kind of explanation, or several even:

• I am hard at work building a lie-and-DNA-detecting robot.
• I was bored.
• Maureen Johnson made me ask you cause she’s too lazy to do her own research.
• It’s for my new novel.
• It’s procrastination to avoid work on my new novel on account of Scott took my IM capability away.
• I am distracting myself from certain sad events on The Wire.
• None of the above.

I hope that’s cleared everything up to your satisfaction.