pp. Displaying a homemade banner, particularly one with a political message, from a freeway overpass or similar location.
—freeway blog v., n.
—freeway blogger n.

Hanging homemade banners from overpasses—"freeway blogging" is the catchphrase—is also popular with political activists. States seem to have less tolerance for them, as two protesters in DuPage County, Ill., found recently after suggesting impeachment on a bridge over Interstate 355. A disorderly conduct hearing is set for this week.
—"Getting the Message Across," U.S. News & World Report, December 17, 2007

For two years on his evening commute, Bleiweiss watched members of the Progressive Action Alliance on the bridge over U.S. 59 at Mandell protesting Israel with virulent signs. Although increasingly bothered by them, he did what most people would do: He silently fumed but didn't act on it. Then one day in March 2008, fed up with the increasingly anti-Semitic tone of the group's signage, he decided to take action against what he calls "freeway blogging."
—Arlene Nisson Lassin, "Taking matters into his own hands," The Houston Chronicle, November 6, 2009

Freeway blogging [image].
—"Good Idea," corrente SBL, October 1, 2003

The pioneer here is a fellow who calls himself the Freeway Blogger (see freewayblogger.com), who is (in)famous for his roadside signs in southern California.

n. A person who takes action, particularly when the easiest or most acceptable course is to do nothing. [Cf. bystander.]

"I had to do something because I feel that there is no place in my hometown of Houston for unchallenged haters," Bleiweiss said. "This group has taken on a life of its own, and it has become time consuming for me, but I would rather be an 'upstander,' and do something about the hatred, than be a bystander."
—Arlene Nisson Lassin, "Taking matters into his own hands," The Houston Chronicle, November 6, 2009

The examples of local "upstanders" (as opposed to bystanders) lead to exhibits that explore larger, history-making conflicts and the consequences of the action, or inaction, that followed. The result is a powerful, 90-minute tour of what it means to be a positive member of a multicultural society.
—Robert L. Smith, "Exhibit on diversity shows there's work to do: Global Village," Plain Dealer, October 22, 2009

What's so extraordinary about a century of bystanding is the extent to which there have been upstanders, whether it's Henry Morgenthau, the US ambassador in Constantinople back in 1915, simply trying to get permission from the Wilson administration to condemn the Turks for what they were doing to the Armenians, or whether it's the State Department dissenter—Scott, you'll remember—from the 1990s who resigned to protest the Bush administration and then the Clinton administration policy.
—Samantha Power, "Samantha Power and Elizabeth Neuffer discuss the world's views on genocide in modern times," National Public Radio, May 25, 2002

n. Memory loss and reduced mental functioning following chemotherapy. Also: chemo fog, chemo-fog.

Dr Janette Vardy from the Sydney Cancer Centre, told the Clinical Oncological Society of Australia Annual Scientific Meeting 'chemofog' had previously been assumed to be temporary, but for 20 to 30 per cent of patients, it had been shown to be ongoing. "It is only in the last 10 years that we have recognised 'chemofog' or 'chemobrain' as a condition," Dr Vardy said. "For a long time some oncologists didn't believe it was real and it was all in the mind.
—"Chemo may leave brain fog," Science Alert, November 18, 2009

Mild cognitive impairment following chemotherapy is one of the most commonly reported post treatment symptoms by breast cancer survivors. This deterioration in cognitive function, commonly referred to as "chemobrain" or "chemofog," was largely unacknowledged by the medical community until recent years.
—N. Boykoff et al., "Confronting chemobrain," Journal of Cancer Survivorship, September 16, 2009

Memory impairment is very evident, she told me, in support groups with people who are all on chemotherapy. "We call it 'chemo fog' or 'chemo brains'," she told me.
—Sharon Batt, "Patient no more: the politics of breast cancer," Scarlet Press, November 1, 1994

This term started out its linguistic life as the two-word phrase chemo fog, and it has been waging a steady — and successful — campaign to become a single word ever since the first appearance of chemofog in 2003. Overall (that is, since 1994) about 60 percent of the available citations use chemofog (compared to 28 percent for chemo fog and 12 percent for chemo-fog). However, if you look at just the past two years, chemofog monopolizes the conversation with about 81 percent of the cites (versus 11 percent for chemo fog and 8 percent for chemo-fog).

I should also point out that the phrase chemobrain (or chemo brain) is far more common, and dates to about 1991.

n. A recession that affects men more than women. Also: man-cession. [Blend of man and recession.]

What is a mancession, you ask? It's not this. It's a recession that hurts men much more than women, and we are allegedly in the worst mancession in recent history. Eighty percent of job losses in the last two years were among men, said AEI scholar Christina Hoff Summers, and it could get worse.
—Derek Thompson, "It's Not Just a Recession. It's a Mancession!," The Atlantic, July 9, 2009

Tennessee's Department of Labor has not instituted any specific policies or programs to meet the needs of the growing ranks of unemployed men. But in neighboring Georgia, the mancession may change the way that state does business. "We have recognized that we obviously need to do more focused recruiting of men into our technical training programs and ... that we may need to be prepared to do more and different things to meet this population's needs," said Georgia Department of Labor Commissioner Michael Thurmond. He released a white paper last month on the mancession, using that term and examining the unemployment gap since the recession began.
—Janell Ross and Heidi Hall, "After unemployment, many men struggle with new family role," The Tennessean, August 2, 2009

It's not a recession, it's a man-cession. And the lipstick economy may have only just begun. The U.S. recession has been a catastrophe for men, but merely a downturn for women. According to Friday's payrolls report, eight out of every 10 pink slips in the past year have gone to men.
—"Men Losing Far More Jobs Than Women in U.S," Canadian Economics Press, December 8, 2008

n. A sport where paragliders follow birds of prey that have been trained to look for and follow thermal updrafts that enable the pilots to stay aloft.
—parahawker n.

This seems straight out of a Terry Gilliam film. The guy flying with the two really big birds is Scott Mason, who uses them to detect thermal currents to fly his paraglider through the skies of Nepal. It's called parahawking.
—Jesus Diaz, "Flying with Hawks," Gizmodo.com, October 18, 2009

We are heading to a ridge top 2,000 feet above Pokhara. In the backseat there is a paragliding wing, a leather glove and a pouch of raw buffalo meat. Everything Mason needs to introduce me to Nepal's latest adventure sport: parahawking.
—Christina Ammon, "Nepal's latest adventure sport: parahawking," San Francisco Chronicle, October 18, 2009

Having been out in Nepal flying with these birds on a daily basis for the last eight years, Adam and Graham were keen to push this interaction further. So after a few beers and plenty of enthusiastic discussion, the idea of parahawking was born. Parahawking is simply a fusion between Paragliding and Falconry. The idea being that the birds are trained to "hunt" the thermals, which allow the pilots to stay aloft.
—Scott Mason, "The Himalayan Parahawkers," Falconry & Conservation Magazine, January 1, 2003

n. A person who likes the dwarf planet Pluto, particularly one who objects to Pluto's status as a dwarf planet.
—Plutophilia n.

While Tyson emphasises the things that set Pluto apart from the eight official planets, like its cluttered and elongated orbit, he does not argue against calling it a planet. We should spend less time classifying objects as planet or non-planet, he says, and more time thinking about the myriad ways to group them, from size and composition to formation history and weather. He makes a good case for moving beyond the definition debate, but it is unlikely to sway the hordes of devoted Plutophiles — especially the angry correspondent who told Tyson: "Pluto is a planet because I say so."
—David Shiga, "Fighting over the underdog (subscription required)," New Scientist, January 24, 2009

Today, debate still rages over how to classify the little celestial body, along with others orbiting the sun, but the IAU stands by its definition. "I think that most of the astronomical community has come to terms with the fact that we now know that the solar system has a continuous distribution of objects from very large down to very small," said Lars Lindberg Christensen, a spokesman for the IAU. "We now know that what we call the different objects has to necessarily change with time." Don't tell that to Plutophiles still seething about the decision.
—A. Pawlowski, "What's a planet? Debate over Pluto rages on," CNN.com. August 24, 2009

To the best of our knowledge, no people live on Pluto. But at least a few "Pluto people" live right here on Earth. And they want to see us get closer to the far planet. One of these Plutophiles is Clyde W. Tombaugh, 84, an astronomer at New Mexico State University at Las Cruces.
—A.R. Hogan, "Weird wonders await us if Pluto lovers convince N.A.S.A. to visit...Planet 9 from outer space," The Washington Times, January 7, 1991

The New Scientist article is also available (free) via Scribd (scroll to page 49).

n. A person who dislikes shopping, or does not have much time for shopping, and so tends to select items quickly and without much thought.

The clichés are that women shop, men buy. But when I went shopping with people — and I went shopping with a lot of men and women — I found that a lot of women are what men are supposed to be, which is the 'grab and goers,' who hate shopping. When a man spends hours and hours and hours online looking for the right cellphone or something like that, he's shopping. But the culture tends not to notice that.
—Lee Eisenberg quoted in Sarah Boesveld, "Q&A: Good news — it's okay to shop," The Globe and Mail, November 9, 2009

There are thousands of workers out there in desperate need of some serious morning nourishment that they can literally just "grab and go"....Unfortunately, convenience and healthy eating don't always go hand in hand, but for the health-conscious grab-and-goer you could always put together some kind of bag meal: a yogurt, some fruit juice, a single-use cereal and milk container, or even a filled bagel.
—Stuart Ferguson, "Breakfast on target," Caterer & Hotelkeeper, January 10, 2008

Keep consistency of category location and brand position on shelf for 'grab-and-goers'.
—"Soup: need a driver, PoS dismal," Grocer, April 5, 2003

I'm a bit surprised that grab-and-goer dates only to 2003, since the verb on which it's based — grab-and-go — dates to 1986. In fact, it might be older than that, because in the earliest citation I could find, the author uses it somewhat matter-of-factly and not even in a true retail sense:

n. A news article that consists of a chart or similar graphic with a small amount of explanatory text. [Blend of chart and article.]

The pugilist was one Henry Allen, a renowned writer and an editor with the Style section. On the other end of Allen's ire (something between a clenched fist and a slap, say eyewitnesses) was Style writer Manuel Roig-Franzia, co-author of a "charticle" (an appetizer-sized combination of words, images and graphics) that Allen called the second-worst story he'd seen in 43 years.
—Kathleen Parker, "A spark of passion in the newsroom," The Washington Post, November 8, 2009

Although both magazines were about food, Gourmet was more high-end, aspirational, and literary. Bon Appétit was utilitarian, serving readers one brow level down from Gourmet. But over time, the differences between the two magazines grew so faint that Gawker asked in March, "Why does Condé need both?" An August charticle in a Wall Street Journal blog detailed the redundancies.
—Jack Shafer, "How Condé Nast Is Like General Motors," Slate Magazine, October 5, 2009

It's hard to show the whole picture on our chart...But state and local governments do increasingly raise revenue from the direct taxation of income.
—Peter Brimelow, "Charticle: The reason why," Forbes, August 26, 1996

The original charticles were put together by writer Peter Brimelow and researcher Edwin S. Rubenstein in Forbes magazine. They first appeared in the September 1996 issue and continued until November, 2001. Here's an example.

n. In a product, an intrinsic property that promises to simultaneously satisfy two opposing consumer desires. [Blend of paradoxical and essence.]
—paradessential adj.

Palin is a paradessence, and hence a wildly popular commodity, because she combines the family-centeredness of the ideal suburban Mom with the ruthlessness of a corporate "warrior" in the dog-eat-dog neoliberal economy, or of a hard-core ideologue/foot soldier for the Far Right. She is sort of a perfect combination of June Cleaver and Ilse Koch. She both energizes the GOP's fundamentalist-Christian base (which was previously very suspicious of McCain), and appeals to non-fundamentalist, independent white voters (who find her even more charismatic than Obama — with the added advantage that she's white, to boot). It is probable that, given how gender formations work in America today, so powerful a paradessence would have to appear in the form of a woman, rather than a (heterosexual) man.
—Steven Shaviro, "An Issue That Won't Go Away," The Pinocchio Theory, September 13th, 2008

Many products exhibit a paradoxical essence, or paradessence, in promising to simultaneously satisfy two opposing consumer/buyer desires. 'Products blessed with paradessence somehow combine two mutually exclusive states and satisfy both simultaneously. Ice cream melds eroticism and innocence. Air travel offers sanitised adventure. Amusement parks provide terror and reassurance. Automobiles render drivers reckless and safe. Sneakers grasp earth and help consumers soar free. Muzak is a hybrid of transience and eternity'.
—Aidan O'Driscoll, "Culture, Contradiction and Marketing Pragmatism," Irish Marketing Review, September 9, 2009

The paradessence of coffee is stimulation and relaxation. Every successful ad campaign for coffee will promise both of those mutually exclusive states." Chas snaps his fingers in front of her face. "That's what consumer motivation is about, Ursula. Every product has this paradoxical essence. Two opposing desires that it can promise to satisfy simultaneously. The job of the marketer is to cultivate this schismatic core, this broken soul, at the center of every product."
-Alex Shakar, The Savage Girl, HarperCollins, September 18, 2001

A jaunty wave to reader Laurie Mullikin for letting me know about this term (twice!).

n. The study of the past, present, and projected distribution of wildfires.
—pyrogeographer n.
—pyrogeographical adj.

A key to understanding those consequences is the notion of the "fire regime", where different vegetation has characteristic fires in terms of recurrence, intensity, seasonality and biological effects. Indeed, fire can be thought of as an emergent property of vegetation in the same way that vegetation can be thought of as an emergent property of climates. In other words, Earth has a "pyrogeography".
—David Bowman, "Scorched earth: Wildfires will change the way we live," New Scientist, October 7, 2009

Researchers used thermal-infrared sensor data obtained between 1996 and 2006 from European Space Agency satellites in their study of pyrogeography — the distribution and behavior of wildfire — on a global scale.
—"Climate Change To Spur Rapid Shifts In Wildfire Hotspots, Analysis Finds," ScienceDaily, April 8, 2009

—S. N. Sannikov, "Evolutionary pyroecology and pyrogeography of the natural regeneration of Scotch pine," Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Forest Fire Research, November 1, 1994