Words of the Present II

1. burrocracy -- rule of burros; a Mexican writer's term for "bureaucracy."
2. Columbusing -- the process by which a white person discovers something that already exists.
3. cryptozoology -- the study of hidden animals; the study of animals not yet recognized by science.
4. dorsalism -- obsession with women's backs.
5. dorsalist -- one with a passion for women's backs.
6. dracontology -- the study of dragons; cryptozoology.
7. endarkenment -- the opposite of enlightenment.
8. frontalist -- the opposite of a dorsalist.
9. gynic -- womanly.
10. me-ritocracy -- an anonymous Libertarian's term for the type of meritocracy most people seem to really want.
11. muliebrity -- womanhood; femininity.
12. necrolagnia -- necrophilia.
13. racebending -- the practice of hiring an actor for a play, movie or TV show whose race is different than that of the character he or she will be portraying.
14. sapiosexual -- a person who is sexually attracted to smart people.
15. spinach cinema -- movies that are not very exciting or interesting, which one feels obliged to see because they are considered to be educational or otherwise uplifting.
16. Spinnish -- language used by spin doctors and other political operatives.
17. tanorexic -- obsessed with maintaining a permanent dark tan.
18. thanatophilia -- necrophilia.
19. voice novel -- a very long voice mail message.
20. white math -- author David Mura's term for that system of arithmetic which white people use to dismiss non-white claims of injustice by pointing to at least one event in which a nonwhite person was favored and using it as an excuse to dismiss many events in which white people were favored.