Aught to Be

The other day, Scott pointed out that we, all of us, haven't yet settled upon a name for this decade. You know, like the Eighties, the Nineties, and so forth. I remember speculating about this in 1999, wondering if the decade-about-to-dawn would be called the Aughts like the first decade of the 20th century. It seemed too quaint to be possible—and too quaint it must have been indeed, because I don't think I've ever heard anyone use "the Aughts" this time around.

In 1999 my HarperCollins...