It's time to submit final entries, debate the existing entries, and to cull the 2011 list. New items in bold. Please add your suggestions in comments.
Because it's never too early to put the world on notice...
- Frenemies
- Social Media
- Sexting
- Obamabot
- How's that workin' out for ya?
- Establishment
- Mainstream
- Lamestream
- Emboldened
- Litmus Test
- Blowout preventer
- Top Kill
- Real Housewives of ___________
- Gaga
- Junk Shot
- Enthusiasm Gap
- Mixologist/Mixology
- Folks (when uttered by any politician)
- Elites
- Hysterical
- Breathless
- Fee Fees
- Structural Unemployment
- Epistemic Closure
- Hippie Punching
- Bipartisan (itchy brother, from comments) "Bipartisan" made the 2009 List, but clearly, the banning did not take; so it needs to be banned again.
- The American People (when uttered by any politician) (Jill from comments) (Remember Harold Pinter's 2005 Nobel lecture: "Language is actually employed to keep thought at bay. The words 'the American people' provide a truly voluptuous cushion of reassurance. You don't need to think. Just lie back on the cushion. The cushion may be suffocating your intelligence and your critical faculties but it's very comfortable.")
- Homeland (Major Woody from comments)