Tod Goldberg's word

I've come to expect that literary people may use "fucktard" -- a word that, as far as I know, was coined by the sweet-tongued author Tod Goldberg. So when it crops up elsewhere I'm tickled. This time I was reading Curbed LA which had written about a craigslist ad for "a smoking hot boy to share house" -- no fucktards allowed.

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[tod goldberg]

To be fair, I don't believe I created the word, only popularized its use. In fact, the first time my computer tells me I used it was in a column for the Las Vegas Mercury in 2000, so that was a long time ago and I'm sure someone else had said it first, though, I do love any combination of words that end with -tard. I did spot the word in Christopher Moore's latest novel and felt a welling sense of pride.