Some contradictions are funny, some are sad, some weird, some bad. Some are the result of confusion, some are the result of out and out lying. Why be self-contradictory? Are there varying degrees of malice or thoughtlessness in contradictions? Telling lies is only half of the story. How can we distinguish a lie from the truth if we don't have both for comparison? Some contradictions are incidents and many are accidents . . . let's see what we can unfold!