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 ...

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 ...

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 ...