Laserlike Focus

The phrase "laserlike focus" is stupid and people should stop using it.  Unless you are a mountain gorilla in Congo, you have probably never seen a laser!  Every time I hear it or read it I cringe!  It adds nothing!  So stop using it!  From NYTimes: Charter Schools' New Cheerleaders: Financiers:

"Wall Street has always put its money where its interests and beliefs lie. But it is far less common that so many financial heavyweights would adopt a social cause like charter schools and advance it with a laserlike focus in the political realm."

And oh yeah, while I am letting it out, New York Times, I don't think this is a new phenomenom on the charter school scene (NYTimes: Despite Push, Success at Charter Schools Is Mixed).