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Mitch McConnell
2014 took the 'awe' out of 'awesome'
2014 took the 'awe' out of 'awesome'

It was an "awesome" year. In my annual search for a word that pretty much describes the past year, I have found that almost everything, everywhere, was "awesome." I am using the A-word in the sense that I have heard my son's generation use it since he was in grade school in the 1990s. To the new generation, I detected, the world boils down to two extremes: Everything is either "awesome" or "sucks." No longer is "awesome" reserved for those people or things that actually inspire awe. "Awesome" has grown like a grade-B movie monster into a universal sign of praise ("That's an awesome necktie"), delight...