On the radio today I heard a journalist say that "Bush is the elephant in the room on congressional campaign issues, both literally and figuratively". Since the elected president of our country is not a pachyderm, I'm pretty sure that at most Bush could be figuratively an elephant in a room, NOT literally.

I know I'm not the only one who thinks that misusing the word "literally" has reached a crescendo recently. It is almost (but not quite) as irritating to me as hearing the word "hella", or far, far worse, "hecka".