Euphemism

James Fallows points out that "Senate fails" is a euphemism. Forty employees of the 1% succeeded in preventing extension of unemployment benefits.

Sucker lists

Rick Perlstein and Amanda Marcotte on the unsurprising idea that people who trust the Republicans are a good market for snake oil.

Sowhat

In a sense I can't boycott this year's Winter Olympics because I never watched them, but John Scalzi and I are sitting it out.

Named by Jonathan Swift

Yahoo protects us from gay cooties in Dilbert. Wyincha go back to Russia where you belong?

Thanx to andrewducker