What will they call this pathetic decade? Walter Shapiro suggests The Zombified Zeroes.

[BurtWorm]

Sounds pretty accurate to me. Just plain "The Zeroes" even says it all.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/01/03/congress/index.html?source=rss

Jan. 3, 2007 | The headline in Tuesday's New York Times (both its print and Web editions) was a classic of fatuous uncertainty: "Jeb Bush Ponders Future, Not Knowing What It Holds." For those of us not born Bush, the future, of course, is equally perplexing, though our confusion is less likely to be chronicled by the Times.

Equally amusing is the persistence in the media of the contrary notion -- that true experts (generally observed seated at round tables on the sets of TV talk shows) can divine the shape of things to come. Especially at the beginning of the year, the media is obsessed with prophecy, all based on the illusory conceit that a dozen or so interviews can yield the identity of the next presidential nominees or the end-of-the-year Dow Jones Average.

Such hubris. Here it is 2007 -- and we have yet to even figure out what to call the decade we are living in. Are these the Zombified Zeroes? Or the Hold Your Nose Oh's?

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[marmar]

1. Prince already called it: "2000-zero-zero party over, oops, out of time"

:)

[BurtWorm]

2. The Party Over Ohs...

:thumbsup:

[valerief]

3. This is the New Killennium. It's all Kill, Kill, Kill, Kill all the time. nt

[sinkingfeeling]

4. I like it. Whatever it is, it has to contain 'zeroes'.

[eppur_se_muova]

5. The all-for-noughts? nt

[Imagevision]

6. The decade a US. President went to war under phoney and fabicated pretenses

[Fire Walk With Me]

7. How about "The Utterly Unaccountables" or the "Noughties"?