A Whole Lotta Fail...

You know when you get one of those nagging itches in the middle of your back, the kind that you can't seem to manage to scratch in a satisfying way, the kind that has you shifting and squirming and wishing that it would just stop? Well, I've had a few of these kicking about in my brain this year as I've watched various eruptions in LJland this winter.

One thing that has been nagging at me is the use of the word "fail." Yes, I myself have occasionally said that something or someone is "made of fail." However, I've been seeing it more and more and more in recent shitstorms, one of which even takes it as part of its name, and in those places, the use of the word seems to point directly at an unacknowledged root of a lot of the conflict.

( A Whole Lotta Fail )

Okay, I'm still a little itchy, but if I don't get groceries and finish my grading. Apologies for ending more abruptly than I'd like.