Silver bullets

I'm getting really sick of hearing about silver bullets. People love to use this little turn of phrase to show how complex their pet issue is. For example, there's no silver bullet for solving teenage binge drinking, as it requires some pro-active feed-forward with key stakeholders around a number of issues.

The thing is, none of the real issues in this world can be solved with a silver bullet. Well, except werewolves.

So, if you're talking about the plague of werewolves infesting the local villagers, then knock yourself out with silver bullet solutions. Otherwise, drop the lousy metaphor.