Welcome to the 2010s, the teens or whatever the hell we’re calling this collection of ten years. And that’s the whole thing, it’s not about what we call it; it’s that we won’t call it and we won’t talk about it. We couldn’t shut up about the me-me 80s or the go-go 90s. “Well it is the 90s”, “with the coming of a new millennium”, “turn of the century” and all that.

Who talked about the aughts? Nobody, that’s who. We didn’t even call those years the aughts. We may start doing so though. It’s easier to refer… Read the rest