Banished words or phrases

Lake Superior State University authored its annual sweet list of words that should be banned due to over use and uselessness. I felt that it would be helpful to all of you to highlight a few of these random words to make them pop - so that you could avoid bad wordsmithing. Back in the day, we knew that we had to give back and make a difference in this post 9/11 world. It is emotional to create a perfect storm over whether brown is the new black. We could decimate information or push something organic under the bus and not worry about it. After all, it is what it is....Now wasn't that just awesome? I'm pretty sure awesome was banned years ago but who can resist using it in place of my 2008 nomination for over used descriptor- amazing?