Sturgeon's Law

Is there a word that receives more egregious abuse than "literally"? It used to mean "literally." The way it gets used now, it means "figuratively." Just now, I learned from sportscaster Chris Berman (a hateworthy individual at the best of times) that Tampa Bay running back Carnell "Cadillac" Williams is "literally just out of the showroom."

I also heard not long ago that the crowd at a sellout event was "literally hanging from the rafters," which sounds pretty unpleasant, if you ask me. Poor literally--people who don't have a goddamn clue how to use it nonetheless deploy it in an attempt to give their words greater emphasis, and literally literally suffers as a result. Er...