The past year proves that a lot of conventional economic wisdom is neither true nor wise. For example: “We don’t

Ralph Waldo Emerson told of a dinner guest who went on and on about the virtue of honesty, offering his

Hey, you, get away from those polling places! We don’t want your kind here! Scram! That’s a stupid, shameful, and

In CorporateSpeak, there are no “job cuts.” Instead, firings are blandly referred to as “employment adjustments.” Now, though, corporate wordsmiths

Hunters have come up with euphemisms to make what they do sound… well, less unpleasant. For example, animals aren’t killed,

When corporate executives are absurdly hypocritical, yet so obtuse that they don’t even realize it, is it still hypocrisy… or

There’s a white oak tree in Athens, Georgia, that is not owned by anyone. It’s an autonomous entity – known