When is it OK to lie?

A) Never? B) Only to avoid hurting feelings? C) Only on your resume?

If you answered A), this must be a disappointing week for you.

George Santos the Person created George Santos the Candidate, and members of his Republican party didn’t seem terribly upset by his pretend life that he presented as his real life.

This all after the New York Times dropped a bombshell about Santos lying about his heritage, his career, his everything — or it would have been a bombshell back when people cared about such things. The world stopped a moment, but only part of the world. For his part, Santos admitted that he’d “embellished” his resume. His (Republican) supporters said he’d broken no laws, though support for his lying and his waffling could change as the rest of us discuss the difference between “embellishing” and “lying.”

Maybe this is a good time to have another Total Disclosure Day. My brother Tom and I did this back in the early ‘90s, at a time when we both feared we weren’t living authentically, though that is not language either of us used or use. I’d just read the book “King of Vermont,” where a political candidate decides he will do more than just tell the truth (note to George Santos). He decides, instead, to vomit up everything about himself — or total disclosure. He would not only release his taxes (note to Donald Trump) for the previous year, he’d share all of his tax returns garnered throughout his entire adulthood.

Emulating the book, Tom and I decided we would try to go through an entire day embracing total disclosure. No matter what, we would tell the truth and then we would report back to one another at the end of the day.

I only made it to mid-morning. I don’t think he made it much longer than that, but what the heck. Let’s see how we do in the shadow of the embellishing politician. Starting the moment you read this, can you tell the truth (it doesn’t have to be total disclosure, as in releasing all your tax returns), the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? See how far into the day you get and then report back here, in the comments.

Good luck.