Link Day:

1) Very cool article- http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n16/stefan-...ns-to-mckinsey
If nothing else read the first two paragraphs, "As with changes in the use of language generally, readers and listeners become inured to what were once jarring neologisms or solecisms, while phrases that were once so common as to escape notice become in time unusable."

Seriously, it's a very stylish article.

2) Said article is linked from a very cool blog, my favorite sub-section of which is entitled "authoritarianism and fascism alerts". There's a lot to be alerted to.

3) A great word used in said article: 'sottisier'- A collection of ridiculous remarks or stupidities; a collection of howlers.

Used in a sentence: "Beyond the warped ingenuity of these Heath Robinson schemes to force ‘free’ competition to happen in closely controlled circumstances, such interest as the White Paper possesses may lie chiefly in its providing a handy compendium of current officialese, a sottisier of econobabble." (Italics mine own)

I do enjoy a good academic burn, I must say.