{"id":193274,"date":"2009-01-01T15:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T20:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/01\/asshole\/"},"modified":"2009-01-01T15:09:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-01T20:09:00","slug":"asshole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/01\/asshole\/","title":{"rendered":"Asshole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Krugman is <a href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/31\/looking-for-a-word\/\">looking for a word<\/a> that describes a person who, &#8220;considers his mild discomfort the equivalent of torture, crippling injury, or death for other people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He was referring to Alberto Gonzalez&#8217;s suggestion that he&#8217;s a &#8220;one of the many casualties of the war on terror.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The first word that popped into my mind is the title.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure that the Germans have a word for it though, since they invented the word Schadenfreude.<\/p>\n<p>One commenter on Krugman&#8217;s post references Hannah Arendt&#8217;s, &#8220;Banality of Evil,&#8221; though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Krugman is looking for a word that describes a person who, &#8220;considers his mild discomfort the equivalent of torture, crippling injury, or death for other people.&#8221; He was referring to Alberto Gonzalez&#8217;s suggestion that he&#8217;s a &#8220;one of the many casualties of the war on terror.&#8221; The first word that popped into my mind &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,1130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193274"}],"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=193274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}