Word of the year: Orthogonal

Last year I posted about the word "Romanette," and its use during a SCOTUS argument wherein Chief Justice Roberts admitted to having never heard the term. Well, this past Monday seemed like deja vu all over again. In the argument for Briscoe v. Virginia, University of Michigan Law School Professor Richard D. Friedman described something as "entirely orthogonal." Click here for the full, rather entertaining story.