What some people are making a ruckus about these days is the 'Oxford comma": also known as the 'Harvard Comma' and the 'serial comma'. Serial comma sounds downright dangerous, perhaps calling to mind infamous serial killers.
I've always stood by having a comma before the 'and' that is toward the end of a series, as I see a naked 'and' there as indicating a closer link between those items than exists among the others separated by commas.
Feeling myself in total agreement with the band Vampire Weekend in their "Oxford Comma" song, I reckon the 'comma ruckus' as just another demonstration of the inherent furor of entrenched, or perhaps, embedded ignotism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_comma
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