This week, the word "derp" went mainstream — and, according to some people with strong opinions, jumped the shark. New York Times columnist Paul Krugman and Josh Barro at Business Insider both used ...

It's not really reasonable to hate words, even though it's fun. Those words didn't do anything to you. It's the connections and connotations that come from those words that are the real problem, and ...

A bit of Internet vernacular has slipped its way into, of all things, the ongoing spat between Republican reformers and conservatives. Josh Barro at Business Insider wrote a post this morning ...

It's official: We made "derp" happen. Today, Oxford Dictionaries announced that "derp" has been added to their online edition. Back in June, Max Read demanded that ...

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One of the greatest failings in journalism is the way that ideas, theories, nonsensical paranoid fears get ‘out there’ and then talked about, critiqued and so forth and yet there’s no point of ...