“The fuel tax thing impacted the wrong way,” Keith Olbermann said when commenting on Senator Hilary Clinton’s strategy of proposing a fuel tax relief–effectively short term relief. Senator Obama seemingly chose correctly when he chose otherwise. At least this is Olbermann’s point of view. We might be able to say that the “demand for such [...]

Recently, reader Joanne Crandall of Ojai wrote a Letter to the Editor of the Los Angeles Times pointing out what she considered a usage error by a Times columnist, in a June 16th article called “Testimony heard on Simpson items” in which the writer described O. J. Simpson as “wiling away his time in [...]

John Bollinger creator of the eponymous Bollinger Bands, an astute means of emphasizing “technicals” instead of “fundamentals” to gauge the strength of an equity and its movement in the stock market, recently bemoaned rising inflation and a falling market, yet with one “positive” sign of “strength” which he named as Wells Fargo, the large banking [...]

Said physicist Seth Shostak of the UFO phenomenon on Larry King recently: “I think they’re out there because of the enormity of the universe.”
Because Shostak holds a PhD in physics and, therefore deals with the physical world on astronomical levels, we must believe he was referring to the physical largeness of the universe, not its [...]

Here we go again with the word “impact.” From a recent headline on a financial web site called “Seeking Alpha”:
“How the Fed’s Decision Impacts You”
This time, Ben Bernancke and the Fed might impact you. Oh nooo… Once more, “impact” used as a verb means: press against, collide, crash, affect strongly, influence (advised to use with [...]