Words To Live By

This account of the American Dialect Society's annual selection of "words of the year" in various categories is riveting. Good for the ADS for not caving in to PC pressure to choose a "most outrageous word" more likely to be reprinted in newspapers than "santorum." And shame on every newspaper editor who felt that his readers couldn't handle seeing what "santorum" means. To paraphrase a Woody Allen line, the definition of "santorum" is nowhere near as obscene as what Rick Santorum intends to do to the country.

Santorum (san-TOR-um) n. 1. The frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex.

Pass it on.