Ill-literate

‘‘I am ’radioactive,’ Sir. When Obama threw me under the bus, he threw me under the bus literally!” The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama’s controversial former pastor, wrote in a recent letter.

So Obama literally picked up Wright and threw him under a bus. You think we would have read about it in the paper or saw it on Youtube.com.

When people say “I literally busted a gut from laughing” I think, “Did you have to go to emergency to get your intestines sewn up?”

Somehow, “literally” now means “figuratively.” The dictionary says it’s a “loose usage” meaning “not really.”

Just don’t say it. You can say “he threw me under the bus” and people will know it’s a metaphor.

Just another one of the many annoying things people say. Don’t get me started on “very unique.”