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As PashaRu mentions, I've always been taught that it's all about dependent and independent clauses. If both the part before and the part after the conjunction could be two separate sentences, they get a comma. If not, they don't. This discussion reminds me of a cartoon I used to see on Saturday mornings:Conjunction Junction.

As for the Oxford comma, I'm a big fan. One of my favorite supportive examples follows:
I love my sisters, Oprah and Martha Stewart.
vs.
I love my sisters, Oprah, and Martha Stewart.
The first sentence (without the Oxford comma) indicate that I love my two sisters, whose names are Oprah and Martha Stewart. The second (with the comma) indicate that I love three sets of people: my sisters, Oprah, and Martha.

I know there are examples that help support no Oxford comma, but that one always makes me laugh!
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