So, it must be said (to all four people that might possibly be reading at this point) that I have misgivings about my maiden blog voyage being on something called "bleakonomy." Why? Two reasons:
1) It implies a rather more dour worldview than I have.
2) It implies that I know something (at all) about economics. I don't. This doesn't stop me from having opinions, but it does make them somewhat less well informed.
Why "bleakonomy," then? It was a neologism that occured to me while listening to NPR, following a mention of the "bleak economy." I have this weird verbal tic whereby I like to smoosh words together that have a connective phoneme. The other example that springs to mind is the name of the erstwhile American Idol also-ran and newly-minted gay baby daddy Claiken. So, thinking that the OED could always use a jolt, I contributed "bleakonomy" to the world's vernacular. Somewhere William Safire is having a seizure.
Anyhow, now that we've got the name, I'll try to tack somewhat toward occasional ponderings on the economy. But I'll probably just blather about politics.
Skeptics in the Pub. Cholera. Chapter 4b
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8 hours ago
They're called portmanteau words. :>
ReplyDelete-Jen B.
Ah, yes. I had forgotten the term. (With all due respect to Lewis Carroll.)
ReplyDeleteyeah, I was wondering about the title. You always struck me as being an optimistic kind of guy.
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