Because I got tired of var module = require('module');

using.js

//using.js
var importThem = function(libs){
  for (var i = 0; i < libs.length; i++) {
    global[libs[i]] = require(libs[i]);
  }
};

module.exports = function(){
  if (arguments.length == 1
      && arguments[0].constructor.toString().indexOf("Array") != -1)
    importThem(arguments[0]);
  else
    importThem(arguments);
};

// and then in your app.js:
require('using')('util','fs');
// or
require('using')(['util','fs']);
// would be equivalent to:
util = require('util');
fs = require('fs');

Does this make me a bad person?