{"id":188977,"date":"2010-06-23T21:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T02:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/06\/23\/torturing-duncan-black\/"},"modified":"2010-06-23T21:15:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T02:15:00","slug":"torturing-duncan-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/06\/23\/torturing-duncan-black\/","title":{"rendered":"Torturing Duncan Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Black, better known by his nom de blog Atrios, coined the term, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Friedman_unit\">Friedman Unit<\/a> ,&#8221; to describeThomas &#8220;The Mustache of Pablum&#8221; Friedman&#8217;s penchant for saying that the whichever war we are involved in will be won in the next 6 months.<\/p>\n<p>A few months later Friedman would say that the next 6 months were &#8220;crucial.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rinse\u2026lather\u2026repeat\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Well, now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eschatonblog.com\/2010\/06\/some-days-i-think-hes-just-messing-with.html\">Michael O&#8217;Hanlon is torturing the young lad<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>    <span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">At this moment, as we enter into perhaps the most <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">crucial six months<\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"> of the entire war, I hope and pray that President Obama will decide we cannot afford to be without the leadership of such an amazing American.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">emphasis mine<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Black wants someone to, &#8220;Make it stop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Your mouth to God&#8217;s ear, Mr. Black.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Black, better known by his nom de blog Atrios, coined the term, &#8220;Friedman Unit ,&#8221; to describeThomas &#8220;The Mustache of Pablum&#8221; Friedman&#8217;s penchant for saying that the whichever war we are involved in will be won in the next 6 months. A few months later Friedman would say that the next 6 months were &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153,982,979,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-stupid","category-wanker","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}