Reason was that I thought of them as "parameters" to the query string. And usually when you use "kwargs" you mean "all other key word arguments go here" sort of thing. It's kinda like if you have a function like this:

```python
def remove(*files):
    for file in files:
        os.remove(file)
```

In that case, isn't `*files` better than `*args`?

However, on second thought, now I don't like "params" either. It's would be more appropriate when you know exactly what you want to send. For example:
```javascript
var params = {username: request.username, password: request.password};
$.post('/server', params, function () { ...
```