glass pockets n.pl.— «The failure by the Legislature to pass the “glass pockets” ethics bill requiring financial disclosure is disgusting.» —“Hometown pride and progress” by Rolfe McCollister Business...
cargo cult economics n.— «With a new year ahead, what do we see as our future? How much of our growth and progress is real, and how much is what I call “Cargo Cult Economics,” where we end up holding sacks of straw? At the end...
WORF n.— «The Senate could, if it passes many of the Assembly bills in its possession, leave the Assembly with a lot of work to finish up. If these bills have been amended in the Senate, the Assembly will need to concur in these...
IGMFU n.— «They’re card-carrying members of the “ME Society.” Everything is for Me, and Screw You. My late father, only semi-jokingly, used to refer to it as the philosophy of “IGMFU,” as in “I Got Mine, F-U...
redshirting v.— «Under the guise of individual differences, meeting individual needs, continuous progress, humanistic education, and now kindergarten redshirting, we have sought to justify shortchanging the children of poor and minorities...
shoefiti n.— «Shoes hanging from utility lines are an international phenomenon, and the possible causes are the subject of seemingly endless speculation. There’s even a newly coined word for it: “shoefiti,” a combination of shoes and...