I'm not really a nice person

C'mon, who's reading this that's surprised by that?

Despite the fact that it makes me look like a bad person, I feel that I must point out that at 0748 PDT on Wednesday November 5, 2008 I coined the term "Ebonomics". There, now you can pay me royalties when it becomes the new "Reganomics" or "New Deal".

Oh, and yes, having a life makes me way too busy to blog. I started blogging as a way to save my friends and family from having to receive directly all of the shit I would normally tell the person to whom I come home. Now I once again have that function filled (excellently, I might add {shhh... she's looking over my shoulder}).

Back to Ebonomics: Talking to a co-worker about his (not positive) impressions of the election, we began commenting on the fact that, had the streak of 44 white guys continued, we would be fired with extreme prejudice for spending the day talking about how great it was that that black guy didn't get the gig. Now, I wouldn't necessarily have thought that that was the thing to say, but I would not have expected to keep my job had I chosen to expound on it. Somehow the opposite does not hold true.

Particularly nice is the number of articles I've read about it that end with "now we can finally drop the race issue" or some variation. This after a couple thousand words obsessing about the "race issue".

Anyway...

Ebonomics is a bastardization of "ebonics" and "economics". That last bit about economics may have been a bit pedantic, no?

To listen to my arch conservative associates one would define it as such:

Men you don't know will approach you and take money from you forcibly. They will then take your money and spend it in the ghetto furthest from your house. It sounds like a mugging, but it's completely legal - and they know where you live and will be back.

Oh, and if you try to defend yourself with your God given (and constitutionally protected) firearm they will take it from you and anally rape you for your temerity... while pouring sugar in your grandmother's gas tank. Of course they're going to do that eventually anyway. That's the way those damned pinko commie liberals operate.

Whoa! Sorry. That vitriol can be seductive. I'm sure it's not so bad as all of that. The point is, although I didn't define it (not that I'll admit, anyway), I coined the term. I want my money when it enters common usage.