I'm surprised by the crapware that's turning
up here: it's so bad, I must try to invent
a new term for it (unless someone has beat
me to it).
My new term is 'scatware', taken from its
root word 'scatological.' I think it's
good in very small very careful application,
as in certain limericks among other things;
but when the application becomes like street
language, it's much too much. As I'm seeing
here.
I don't think this scatware stuff comes from
a sick mind somewhere: I think it's worse
than that. I think it's thrown in here just
to stop serious and productive fringey
discussion. The pork wars come to mind: I
have lately realized how much these wars have
in common with the 'bridge to nowhere' and
other such 'earmark' things out of Washington.
If you look at their beginnings, and at what
they accomplish ... I'm verging into a rant
but my original topic was *scatware*. Like
a stink bomb, it drives away the best people
and I believe that's what it's for.
Grump. -- Martha Adams [rasff 2008 Mar 19]
