Supernatural Food for Thought

It's disappointing how the speculation and discussion about the "supernatural" (other than religion) has declined. There was something fun about all of that. Perhaps also because I was a kid in the 1970's, and we were allowed to dream about such things. There was a pretty bad TV program called "Bigfoot and Wild Boy" back then, and my friends and I, already jaded from growing up in Yonkers, would watch it mainly to criticize it and essentially just make fun of it. I still remember that Bigfoot uttered a cry of "Byahbaah!"
We speculated about UFO's and the Bermuda Triangle, almost wishing those things were real. Eventually, it became clear that most of those things were just myths, even though in high school, I had friends who still thought Professional Wrestling was "real".
It seems now that there are just new, more quasi-scientific myths, like people dying from eating peanuts or green tea curing all ailments.
Personally, I prefer to fantasize about Sasquatch flying around the Bermuda Triangle in a spaceship with Elvis, eating peanut butter and bacon with a spork.

Clichés never stop.

Why do politicians, broadcasters and journalists use those awful, business clichés? I read all of these quotes of how President-elect Obama's appointees will "hit the ground running". Can't they just say that someone is eager or capable? It's the same as people telling me in the early 90's to "think outside the box". I was born outside of their fucking box!
Many phrases could still be valid and clear, or even humorous, but that aforementioned phrase is just terrible. Another dreadful, painfully over-used one is "waiting for the next shoe to drop".