A smugness of bloggers

Aid Thoughts is brilliant.

We don’t have any really good collective nouns, do we? There’s nothing like a “pride” of lions, or an “annoyance” of mimes. I humbly suggest the following:

• A sympathy of charities
• A  contradiction of economists
• A frustration of bureaucrats
• A complexity of anthropologists
• A confusion of NGOs
• A quagmire of donors
• An infestation of politicians
• A detail of immigration officials
• An excellence of bloggers (I suspect others may wish to change this to ‘A smugness of bloggers’. I’ll let you decide. I vote for excellence, as a totally unbiased observer, of course).

I’d add:

• A conviction of  international criminal lawyers
• A compliance of human rights officers
• A delay of IGOs
• A creep of IFIs
• A consternation of think tanks
• A bluster of pundits
• A vigilance of monitors