The 'ought' decade

Does anyone know what we're supposed to call this decade? Is it the 2000s? The twenty-ohs? We're coming up on the last year of it and I still have no idea. Personally, I always liked the "oughts," as in, "back in ought-six, I ate a brick of cheddar cheese in one sitting."

Jonah Goldberg

December 23, 2008