Now that the election is over, my ancient Uncle Mort and his domino-playing buddies down in the thicket can resume their usual mostly-minutia confabs that too often lack authenticity.This reminds me of the annual extravaganza birthed in 1929 when old-timers of Burlington, Wisconsin held their first-ever “Liars’ Contest.” They called it “harmless fibs for fun and folly.”The contest caught on nationally, thanks to hundreds of newspapers providing free publicity. One winner, some 50 years ago, was the late Choc Hutcheson of Lubbock, a brilliant eccentric before he learned to shave. He “lied” about a man who invented a duck call ...