As a follow-up to my piece on skunked terms, it might be worthwhile to consider another type of communication that goes by an animal name: weasel words. The term first appeared in print in 1900, in a ...

I wasn’t going to write another column about Donald Trump this month. Rather, I was going to write about what we old-timey ad guys called “weasel words,” words whose purpose was (still is) to deceive ...