A splendidly earnest USA Today investigation into the spread of terrorist fist-bumping among American businesspeople. (I'd missed it until Matthew Yglesias pointed it out.) The article concludes that terrorist fist-bumping is not yet particularly popular, and that an alternative form of greeting, the "handshake", is somewhat more widespread. "So far, executives say, [fist-bumping] is exchanged almost exclusively among male business associates who are otherwise friends, or in informal settings such as the end of a golf round." (That's terrorist golf, I assume.)
Kristi Mailloux, president of Molly Maid, a maid franchisor in Ann Arbor, Mich., says she never initiates a fist bump, but reciprocates if offered. She says she hopes it never replaces the handshake except, perhaps, in the flu season.
