Welcome to the first Saturday in May, Roadies! The blog harvest is ripe for your picking.

It’s such a charged word, one to be avoided. But an Atlanta news reporter used it. Context is everything, as Doug Richards explains; she was only parroting it back to someone who had said it to her. But she lost her job over it anyway. Did the punishment fit the crime? Read One lousy word

It seems like every company’s goal is to become huge. But it doesn’t have to be, as the In-N-Out Burger fast-food chain proves. Never heard of ’em? It’s because they’re only in CA, NV, UT, AZ, and TX — and will only ever be in those states, as Nick Gerlich explains. Read Burgers Done Well

Jim Cavanaugh‘s son shows us how it’s done when Jehovah’s Witnesses knock on your door. Read The Doorbell Rings