What's the "word of the year"?

According to the American Dialect Society. Phrases get to be words in this competition. Guess: YOLO, #hashtag, Gangnam style, fiscal cliff,...

"EPIC!! #uwmadison #snowday #snowfight #Draco #Madison #Wisconsin #bascom."

"All my residents came back from the Bascom Hill snowball bruised, battered, & bleeding. #HoFoProblems Good thing it was a #lakesho...

"Cornball brother."

There's a current controversy about some ESPN commentator musing over whether RG3 is a "cornball brother." "My question,...

Michelle Obama does not know how to kiss up to people in Wisconsin.

Yesterday in Racine, she began with : "For the next 16 days, coming here to Racine is the closest thing I'm going to get to being a...

Romney said "bless his heart" about Obama.

How disrespectful is that ? A preemptive “don’t even try it” to the media: It is not racist in the slightest. Here 's the Urban Diction...

Business clichés.

89 of them. ADDED: #53 might strike lawyers as misguided: It’s not actionable enough/what’s the deliverable? = You guys do the work on refi...

Rush Limbaugh makes a sex joke about President Obama: "I've laid more pipe than any president except Bill Clinton."

Yesterday Rush Limbaugh was riffing on Obama's seeming turnaround on the Keystone Pipeline. You might think he wouldn't dip back in...

"The ESPN editor fired Sunday for using 'chink in the armor' in a headline about Knicks phenom Jeremy Lin..."

"... said the racial slur never crossed his mind - and he was devastated when he realized his mistake." [Anthony Federico] said he...

When a book falls into my hands, I open it up and read a sentence — and maybe that ends up being the only sentence I read.

Today's book just came in the mail. It's "The End of Straight Supremacy: Realizing Gay Liberation," by Shannon Gilreath. ...

"Lots of photos of Perry having nothing whatsoever to do with this story, and not a single one of the rock. Well done, WP!"

The first comment at a Washington Post article about how Rick Perry, early in his career, used to host events at a hunting camp where there...

Christina Romer, the woman who was taken aback when the man (Obama) said "It’s clear monetary policy has shot its wad."

It was Romer's first meeting with the President-elect in November 2008. According to Ron Suskind's book "Confidence Men: Wall S...

"Get nice and rowdy. It's a 4:15 game, plenty of time to get lubed up..."

Says Tom Brady to Patriots fans. "Yeah. Start drinking early." A Patriots spokesperson clarifies, saying that Brady wanted fans to...

"If it’s supposed to be chaos, then mission accomplished."

"Unfocussed. Seems like a mishmash at best. You’ve got creatures that can speak but aren’t smart (parrots). Then, You’ve got creatures ...

"Mendoucheous."

Fred4Pres, commenting in the Laurence Tribe post , uses the world "mendoucheous." An obvious portmanteau word, it's easy to un...

NYT: "Obama Takes Questions From His Tweeps."

Yikes. Yeeps. The NYT deploys a slang word that — at this moment —  has fewer than 100 total votes at Urban Dictionary . 1. Tweeps A user-c...

A song by men in knickers, searched out because Meade just said "Quit It" like that.

"I Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore" — the first single by the Young Rascals . That clip is their first TV appearance (in ...

"They are promoting drug use... This is the wrong message for Nike to send."

The Mayor of Boston — Thomas Menino — doesn't like the T-shirts in the window at Niketown. A Nike spokeswoman told the newspaper that t...

Drudge finally shows interest in the Weiner.

Let's check out the display. Closeup: The links are: IT MIGHT BE MY WEINER... 'This Could Be The End For Him'... — the quote i...

On "Dancing With the Stars," they really try to get Bristol Palin to smile...

... but even with an ape mask over her head part of the time, we see far too much of the poor girl's sad face: Even when the judges com...

"Florence Henderson and Corky Ballas find out they're safe and hug after Florence says something weird about locking hips with some guy. It sounds lude."

The Daily News reports on "Dancing With the Star" and sounds stoopid. Got some ludes ?