Democrat, Democratic, Democratical.

Today, I encountered a word I'd never noticed before: "democratical." I was writing about the "common sense" meme a...

I discovered the etymology of "skedaddle."

The Etymological Dictionary doesn't know. It just says: "to run away," 1861, American Civil War military slang, of unknown ori...

"It wasn't very long ago they were trying to tell us that Romney was a bully.... Now he's a wimp?"

Rush Limbaugh riffed on the new Newsweek cover today: Calling Romney a wimp is aimed at suppressing the white blue-collar vote .  Blue-colla...

Romney in London.

NBC reports: Romney’s press-corps faux pas: During his meeting with Miliband, according to the pool report, Romney answered questions from ...

"The History of English in 10 Minutes."

This video is truly great: Found via Smithsonian , where I'm finding so much great stuff this morning and wondering why I don't go h...

The Democrats' "jewbag" problem.

Have you noticed this controversy? It's the kind of thing that makes you want to say that if Republicans made a misstep like this we wo...