Overused terms

"Disenfranchised?" Mark Steyn and Tim Blair catch the New York Times misusing it as shorthand for "complacent liberal assumption designed to reassure readers that they can fit this story into all the old cliches about the usual root causes [of terrorism, naturally]."

"Creative?" Spengler says if we use the term "creative" to mean more or less the same thing as "irreplaceable", then the number of truly creative individuals appears very small indeed. Moreover, "It is very unlikely that you are one of them."