Good riddance to bad rubbish and all that--I think it's a great way to view life on the cusp of the '10s. Very worth a quick read:
Dreadful 0hs -- when things fell apartBy Leonard Pitts Jr.
"A few days from now and not a moment too soon, we say farewell to the Ohs.
"Once upon a time, it was common to debate names for this first decade of the new millennium. We'd seen the Gay Nineties, the Roaring Twenties, the Swinging Sixties, we'd endured the Me Decade, the Greed Decade, The War Years, and people wondered what nickname should be attached to the Ohs.
"Maybe you will agree it'd be fitting to call them the Uh Ohs. As in that interjection you mutter when the excreta hits the ventilation device, that word you whisper when the wheels come off the bicycle, that thing you say when things fall apart. The Ohs were a whole decade in which things fell apart -- things you'd thought were built to last, things you depended on without having to think too much about them, things that were the very bones and core and soul and sinew of who we are. Or at least, of who we thought we were.
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"And yet, we're still here, still standing. There is something to be said for that; it is no small feat to still be standing in times so tumultuous, times when the very bedrock of your identity wobbles like Jell-O. That was the Uh Ohs and the best thing you can say about them is that they are almost over." (more)
http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/story/1366869.html
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