Jeff Jarvis called it “the single most essential word in political protest,” and I agree; but since we cannot use the full word in this space, I will wrap it in its prophylactic abbreviation: B.S.

Friday’s poor session in bonds and the euro was largely a reaction to Thursday’s offering from the European elite, namely that when the going gets tough, the tough get out the pen (to re-write ...

Jargon aphasia is a strange syndrome which cause people to suddenly say nonsense words while otherwise speaking normally. Often they won’t even know that they did it. And scientists are not entirely ...

Henry Church of Winston-Salem has some thoughts about the practice of avoiding the word problem by substituting the word issue. He wrote: "Ever since you opened the ‘issues' issue months ago, I ...