You've probably heard that "Black Friday" refers to stores going into profitability, from the use of black ink to signify a positive number on a profit-and-loss statement (as opposed to red ink for negative). But Kevin Drum explains that this … Continue reading
From various places on line. (Note that you don't need to type the quotation marks shown below, and depending on what browser you use and how it's configured, you can often type searches right into the address bar.) For useless … Continue reading
A few weeks ago the So Long As It's Words blog published an informative and amusing post on the origin of the F-word in English. It's more interesting than one might have thought. The thing I found most interesting, however, … Continue reading