Your taxes. Your spouse. Your diet. Your résumé. Your handicap. Your death?

Chances are you've cheated on one of them.

If not, how about the time you scurried across the street instead of using the crosswalk? That day you sneaked 12 items through the 10-or-fewer grocery line? The iPod music pirated off the Internet? The MENSA test answers impatiently pilfered from the back of the airplane magazine? The 79 mph drive home in the 65 zone? Alone, in the HOV lane, with beer open and seat belt unfastened?

It's OK, you can't help it. You're a living, breathing, cheating human hard-wired with an insatiable hunger to get ahead and stay there. Cutting corners is ingrained in our society.

Cheating is why our prisons are full and our presidents are so full of shit.