Truthiness is the 2005 Word of the Year

[sagehen]

>In its 16th annual words of the year vote, the American Dialect
>Society voted "truthiness" as the word of the year. First heard on
>the Colbert Report, a satirical mock news show on the Comedy Channel,
>"truthiness" refers to the quality of stating concepts or facts one
>wishes or believes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known to
>be true. As Stephen Colbert put it, ìI donít trust books. Theyíre all
>fact, no heart.î

>--
>Grant Barrett
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Ugh.  Well, it does have a sort of appositeness in a year when the snake
oil of "intelligent design" seems to have induced mass hypnosis!
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