One of my new favorite sites is the hot word blog maintained by the folks at reference.com. Every day, they pick a word or phrase from the news and explain its origin, background and/or meaning. Today, for example, they take us on a horoscopic tour of the zodiac signs to jump off the story about the Minnesota Planetarium Society pointing out that the dates we associate with horoscopes are incorrect. Wednesday, they explored the origins of "blood libel" that Sarah Palin caused such a fuss over, and earlier they did a posting on "vitriol" from the same Arizona shooting debate. It's the perfect
