Lake Superior University is the new Perfect Storm

I agree with banishing all of these. I'd like to also include moist, bitchin', caucus and "bandwidth" as in "I just don't have enough bandwidth to do that."

Lake Superior State University's 2008 list of banished words or phrases:

• perfect storm

• Webinar

• waterboarding

• organic

• wordsmith/wordsmithing

• author/authored

• post 9/11

• surge

• give back

• `blank' is the new `blank'

• Black Friday

• back in the day

• random

• sweet

• decimate

• emotional

• pop

• It is what it is

• under the bus