So the hardworking staff of Campaign Outsider opened up the Boston Globe Thursday morning, and what did we find?

This big bold headline on the Op-Ed page:

Name that decade

Really? It’s gotten so bad that the local broadsheet is blatantly ripping off Campaign Outsider’s longstanding Name That Decade maybe-contest, without even the decency to change a word or two?

Not to mention, only two of the six snippets on the op-ed page actually did name that decade.

Snippet #1: Joanna Weiss dubbed it “The ‘reality’ decade:”

THAT’S “REALITY’’ in air quotes, of course, since the reality TV that dominated the cultural landscape bore little resemblance to actual life. But in the summer of 2000, when a group of Americans ate bugs while surrounded by cameras on a remote Pacific island, the nation was introduced to a new world of entertainment possibilities. And when a cunning, sometimes-naked Rhode Islander named Richard Hatch won $1 million and worldwide fame, a new career path was born: reality star. A few “American Idol’’ stars launched A-list careers. More reality contestants became demi-celebrities, with diminishing returns. Make waves on “Project Runway’’ and, a few years later, you could at least be hosting a blog on a Lifetime website.

Snippet #2: Matthew Bernstein settled on “the You Decade:”

THE 1970S were the Me Decade. The first 10 years of the 21st century are due for a pronoun of their own – one born of the computer age and its power to set free the individual. These last 10 years will be dubbed, inevitably, the You Decade. After all, no matter where you went, there you were – on YouTube, on Facebook, on Twitter, or in silhouette in the early iPod ad, gyrating with abandon, earbuds tuned to – who else? – U2.

You too.

To recap: The Boston Globe is now ripping off a humble country blogger to sell a few papers.

Think about that, Globies, the next time you start flexing those Pulitzers.