I’d suggest that we call the decade past the Big Zero. It was a decade in which nothing good happened, and none of the optimistic things we were supposed to believe turned out to be true. - Paul Krugman, "The Big Zero," New York Times
OCCUPATION: Sociologist by calling, writer by trade
LANGUAGES: English, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean (a little)
HOBBIES: book collecting, reading, writing
QUOTE: When the Last Trumpet sounds and we are couched in our porphyry tombs, I shall turn and whisper to you, "Robbie, dear Robbie, let us pretend we do not hear it." - Oscar Wilde