Keeshond: Uber-cute dog breed.What is it with today's writers (bloggers in particular) and using prefixes?  I'm as guilty as anyone. Of late there seems to be a proliferation of pre-fixes that serve as qualifiers to nouns and verbs. Anything that is disingenuous  or in some way fake- a critique, a smear, or a "fisking" is  "faux".  So and so's faux-concern. For the same meaning tweak one can use "pseudo." And pseudo works also as a way of saying poseur.

There is "uber" which now denotes strength or seriousness. Andrew Sullivan is uber-gay. A practicing Catholic is "uber-religious." Perhaps you are an "uber-patriot" if you believe strongly in the justice of the war in Iraq.

If anything in the world is hard to describe but almost kind of like something else you do know, or if it is attenuated or adjusted in some way -  it is "quasi" the thing that you know.

But just because I think editors should clamp down on this trend (now that I am disciplining myself) doesn't mean I think they should get crazy - you know what I mean - and start eliminating tangential sentence fragments framed in quasi-punctuation like dashes and parentheses. That would be an uber-bummer.