What does it all mean, Basil?

Today's Big Ten Wonk Word Of The Day is another Wonk favorite:

oracular (or-ACK-yuh-lurr) adj. obscurely prophetic. (more)

I think Wonk focuses more on the ability of subjects (fellow bloggers and other writers) to deliver prophetic analysis and commentary, rather than the tendency to do so in an opaque and puzzling manner. Of course, I understand the statistics and methods being used, so perhaps to the less mathematically inclined, the methods used by these analysts may be inscrutable.

At the very least, though, I think we can be sure that Mark Tupper is more than just a sentient program.