What's the Official Name of This Decade?

Well, what do you know! We've got an astronomical problem on our hands and the government

seems to be looking the other way. Imagine that. You'd think that they'd be the first to

throw millions of dollars at a solution, their motto being: your tax dollars, our

bureaucratic waste. And if we don't solve this problem in the next seven years, people will

be genuinely stumped every time the subject is broached.



What is this problem you ask? Never thought you'd ask. I'll make it really simple: We have

the seventies, eighties, nineties, and the... See what I mean? We don't have a name for the

current decade. I am braced to take the flack of this being called a right wing conspiracy.

How so? How can you criticize a president if you can't even mention the decade he presided

over. The eighties you had Reagan. The nineties Clinton. So, the left will have to use a few

more words to criticize this current administration (not to worry, there are plenty in the

alphabet news agencies and the Democratic National Convention that will be honored to take

up that challenge, free of charge - they have a good start already).

I am making this my personal awareness crusade. Some fight for freedoms and rights and

justice. Me, I fight for a decade name. My audience is anyone willing to listen. Thus far,

my reception has been cordial, that is, if consider "you don't get out much, do you?" a

cordial comment.

Zeroes is lame. Ohs is lamer. The Hundreds doesn't fit. The Null Decade is fraught with

negative connotations. What's left?

I think I have an answer (how's that for a straw man being knocked down?). Rather than watch

normally intelligent people stumble over their words, I'll tell you what to use: Ought or

Aught or Ott, as in the rifle 30-aught 6 (sorry, exposing my 2nd Amendment leanings here).

Simple. I'm proposing that the Federal Government immediately commission a study to look

into the matter.

I am updating this a year after I wrote this and we are no closer to a name than we were a

year ago. People are just not thinking this is a grave matter. Ten years from now when we're

in the twenties, how will we refer to this decade? Perhaps no one has even considered what

we will call the period between 2010 and 2020? The teens. The Twenty Teens. You see every

day we face a new problem it seems. The mid-East peace process is simpler than this even. I

say we write our Congress Critters and complain that they have not officially battled this

out in their "esteemed" halls. In an election year such as the one we are in, coming down on

one side or the other of this issue will certainly be telling, wouldn't it?

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