Clichegate: Another day, another incredibly trite use of the "-gate" suffix. Oh, to live in a world where writers actually use "creativity" and "imagination" to express the point that a scandal may have occurred !!!

UPDATE [3/28]: As if those cliches weren't bad enough, the same writer has now come up with (swear to Kobe) "Gatesgate," referring, presumably, to Melinda Gates. You'd think that the repetitious and banal use of the suffix would grow tiresome to even the laziest of pundits or bloggers, but apparently not. Everytime you see "-gate" tossed at the end of a word, you're either seeing a writer who's too lazy to do any creative thinking, or someone who, consciously or subconsciously, wishes to minimize the scandal du jour by tying it in with a bunch of other long-forgotten media frenzies. Even worse, applying the word to minor scandals trivializes the original "gate", Watergate, an unpardonable sin at a time when the abuse of power by the current President has become a very real scandal.

UPDATE [3/29]: I give up. F*** it.