Andrea Higbie, a former writer and editor for The New York Times, has also written for People, Allure, Glamour, Redbook and other awesome publications. She lives in Texas and is writing a book.

Andrea Higbie's Salon stories

Wednesday, Jul 23, 2008 03:30 PDT

George W. Bush: "Awesome!"

The president has used "awesome" to describe everything from dead soldiers to the pope. How did a slang word trickle up to the highest office in the land?

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