Thursday, December 31, 2009

What Would You Name This Decade?

Rick writes:
12-31-09, Thursday
The last day of the aughts and the last day of the year nine which as far back as February began to hint that it was going to be a real gall stone of a year for us.
And so it has been, but in an odd turn it paradoxically redeemed itself in many ways as well.
Newspaper pundits, casting about for a pigeonhole name for the first decade of the 21st century, have so far come up with the Big Zero but only out of a sense of frustrated disappointment.
Well, they've got a whole year to come up with something really appropriate and I submit they should not go it alone. This is a democracy after all. They should put it to the populace: initiate a contest and pick the best entry at the end of the year.
How to name a decade that began with a horrific terrorist attack and ended with a series of bailouts? Any combat pilot can testify that's a poorly planned sequence of events, like closing the barn door after the horses have escaped.
The Barn Door Decade. That's my entry.

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