words

WHAT IS ANYTHING 8:30 pm March 6, 2012

Super Tuesday Liveblog The Third: Spit It Out, Ohio! And Other Vague Shrugs Of Assent

Hello. What are you doing? It’s time to figure out what some quadrilateral land masses think about three organic masses and one gas, which were each forced to apply for Obama’s job because their tyrannical wives and gas-wife made them. We would say, We are watching this very closely, but that would be plagiarism, so [...]

WEED AS IN THE PAST PARTICIPLE OF WEE 3:00 pm February 22, 2012

Sarah Palin Declares ‘Wee-Wee’ to Be a Word, Thing That Santorum Haters Do

by Liz Colville

Sarah Palin went on Fox News to talk about Satan’s 2008 speech about Rick Santorum on Tuesday, and in the process made a sound that she then passed off as an adjective recognized by English speakers as something that people who don’t like Rick Santorum do when Rick Santorum does something that they don’t like. [...]

ILLITERACY IN THE NEWS 3:15 pm September 7, 2010

Sarah Palin’s Non-Word ‘Refudiate’ Is Merriam-Webster’s New Favorite Word

by Riley Waggaman

Oh for Pete’s sake! Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Summer is Sarah Palin’s merciless assault on the Queen’s English, “refudiate,” and only because refudiate has been the most searched-for non-word on its Internet website since the fateful day William Kristol declared it a miracle of profound conservative wordsmithery. Is the volume of Internet searches the only [...]

AT LEAST IT'S NOT SPANISH! 2:15 pm July 26, 2010

Bill Kristol Uses Non-Word To Define Conservative Agenda

by Riley Waggaman

Hi America, do you have a second? Because Bill Kristol needs your help most urgently. He is searching for a word that defines the “conservative agenda,” a word that means “to refute making sense” and “to repudiate Mexicans,” a special word meaning both of these things at the same time. “Get a brain, morans” doesn’t [...]

ARI FLEISCHER 9:07 am January 30, 2007