I'MMA LET YOU FINISH

Forgery!


How on earth could I have missed that earlier?!

In any case, congrats on your outing!

"Recovering economist"?

You quit?


Oh my God.







You're an economist...



Spooked:

You know what they say:

Once an economist, always an economist.


GravatarI won't hold that against you.

What is it? Out your favorite blogger day?


Gravatarsince sept 2003? then what's w/the pic from the DNC


GravatarOne of these days there's gonna have to be a "lawyers versus economists left wing blogger softball game."


GravatarWhen are you gonna find God and fully recover?


GravatarIs it OK if we still call you Atrios?


GravatarUh. 'Kay. We saw all the pictures of you at the Dem convention. You're cute, cute , CUTE!!
So why are you coming out, er, again?
Did I miss something?
What's with the MMFA?


GravatarCharles put up your personal info months ago but ....

Ok I won't spoil your "outing"

Have fun


Gravatarstinky,
'cause a lot of people seem to have missed it.


GravatarUmmm... hi, Duncan?


GravatarAre you related to Chris Matthews?


Gravatarfeel bad for charles. seems like there was a happy person there once.


GravatarI'm a recovering economist, too. It's a very special state of grace.


GravatarFunny, you don't look Jewish...


GravatarThere's a very good commentary in this week's "Black Commentator" on why the Kerry campaign has so far been so inept and timid and why it has effectively let the Bush campaign define Kerry instead of the other way around.

Click on my name, or:

http://www.blackcommentator.com/ ...over_kerry.html


GravatarBut what kind of typewriter did you use in 1972?


GravatarAtrios/Duncan

I am a student at Berkeley's Public Policy school (GSPP). Our political analysis class is doing a section on "Big Media Meets the Bloggers" (a Harvard case study) in December. If your in the bay area around then, you should come & speak.

The faculty is full of (recovering) economists


GravatarWhat have you done to billmon?


GravatarYou should really fix the red-eye.

Unless they're always like that....


GravatarTim Robbins is Atrios? I knew it!


Well, that picture sorta kinda looks like him anyway. If you squint your eyes. Work with me here.


GravatarBut do you blog in your pajamas?


GravatarClowing around with the date/time stamp?


GravatarI would come out too if I thought anybody cared........


Gravatarhe looks like Joseph Ellis, whom you might have seen speaking on the Jefferson DVD (ken burns)


Gravataryeah, i backdated it jst so i could ave a place to link


Gravatarne question: Now what do we do with our "I am Atrios" t-shirts?


GravatarTim Robbins!!!! Yes, thank you. I knew Atrios reminded me of someone and that it!

By the way, I owe Atrios a special thanks for introducing me to the wonderful world of blogs. This was the first real blog I ever starting reading-- oh about mid 2002.


GravatarI thought he said he was 38.


Gravatar...gyah!

I'm feeling old now and I'm only 44!


GravatarGreat job in "Dead Blogger Walking" and "The Blogger Redemption"

:D


GravatarTim Robbins; not even!


GravatarWait, I know you, you're Sy Hersh, the gym teacher from Philly!


Gravataryeshai,

cool, I'm not the only gambier, OH person hanging out here.


GravatarI'm a 32-year-old recovering journalist, but we're a dime a dozen.

I'm just so blown away at what you've already accomplished... I need to get my act together. I should have quit 9 or 10 newspapers-of-record by now, to be almost even.


GravatarWhat does Mrs. Atrios think of this?

Mrs. McGreevey seems to be okay with it.



GravatarThere's a very good commentary in this week's "Black Commentator"

We are all (Duncan) "Black Commentators."


GravatarYou look a bit like a young Christopher Hitchens.

(ducks)


GravatarWell, given all the info you have disclosed over the years about yourself, your life and your wife, someone was bound to at least get a picture of you anyway.

But, of course, we all know Duncan Black is yet another pseudonym for your real name (or else, one thinks, something more than that other Duncan Black would have turned up under all the Google searches).

So who does that leave with us among prominent lefty anonybloggers? Hesiod (but he's not blogging much anymore), uggabugga, Jo Fish ... there has to be more.

Oh yeah, s.z. too.


Gravatar cool, I'm not the only gambier, OH person hanging out here

it really is a small town...


Gravatar/i


GravatarHow small is this Town?


GravatarAtrio, we all love you here, actually can't live without a daily visit to this blog (until nov 3 anyway) to keep me sane and hopefull that Kerry will win,

so no offense to Duncan, but..., well, hum... how can i say this without insulting Duncan, and i really dont want to insult him, but Duncan kinda look like Neil Bush a bit! I'm sorry! I shouldn't have said that! But Duncan kinda does! Sorry!

By the way, are you sure your server will hold on election night? Cause there's no way i'll listen to these Bush cheerleaders at CNN. This Blog has to hold on election night or we"ll go insane! Please Atrios! May the strong server Force be with you!


GravatarFormer Gambezi here ... (1970s vintage and yes, anyone who knew me is dead lo these many years)


GravatarYou seem much taller in your pseudonym


GravatarBy the way, are you sure your server will hold on election night?

God I hope so, I probably be checking the comments frequently during election night, with a bottle of Maker's in my hand.

And if Kerry wins... there's going to be fucking in the streets...


GravatarDuncan Black... Weren't you the fiddle player for Fairport Convention?


GravatarGambier, OH - population 500
(associated college, population 1,600)

so, yeah, small...


GravatarThe simple things you see are all complicated
I look pretty young, but I'm just back-dated.


GravatarSSHHH! You are not supposed to say that Atrios looks like a younger and sober Christopher Hitchens!


GravatarIts my old gym teacher!


Gravatarsober?


GravatarVery clever Mr Blumenthal, posting that web page, alledgedly outting yourself. Its quite obviously a forgery.


Gravatar sober?

you never did answer the "Is Atrios drunk question" on the McKay thread...


GravatarYeshai, Okay that IS really small.


GravatarResults of about 1,090,000 for Duncan Black. (0.25 seconds)

hi hi hi!



GravatarI used to think 'hey, I could be as good and as popular as Atrios if only I had the same experience as him', now it turns out we're the same age.

But you know, if you superimpose the head from that picture on the pictures here or here, they're identical. Honest.


Gravatarthe crazy thing is that in this one tiny town in central Ohio there is more than one Eschaton addict up at >1am!


Gravatara very lovely,honest face..refreshing


GravatarBy the way, if you feel like vomiting a little, you can always go read the Christopher Hitchens "thing" on the 1000 dead soldiers on Slate. I hate those "reformed" liberals. Really


GravatarTim Robbins; not even!
Hubris Sonic


Well, maybe not so much. But there's no arguing that he certainly looks much more like Tim Robbins than motivational megastar Tony Robbins.


GravatarLike, we care - get back IN! We (and the cats) will still love you and (tho maybe not the cats) read your posts. The rest, I assume, is for Mrs. A, alone.
That's as it should be.
Curse our sensation-seeking, carpal-tunnel-challenged Press Corps! Clowns at the masquerade, poltroons and sneaks, waiting only to unmask their betters, then run off, giggling, to count their filthy coin...
Nice pic, tho!
G


GravatarYeshai,

LOL- That IS freaky. And he maybe your Neighbor. Any lights on around you?


Gravataryou and Instapundit look like twins.. coincidence?


GravatarOh yeah, Duncan Black, like that's a real name.



GravatarOne question:

Who the hell cares?

Honestly. If there was this much back-patting when someone went 'strait' publically, we'd be pretty fucking busy and not getting a lot of work done.

I personally don't give a shit if you screw old cabbagge, thats your business. Can we get back to you guys losing?


GravatarA little Cranky?


GravatarWho the hell cares?

Honestly. If there was this much back-patting when someone went 'strait' publically, we'd be pretty fucking busy and not getting a lot of work done.



Ha. Ha. Ha. I don't think he's outing himself in that way.


GravatarIs that kerning in your eyebrows that I see there?!?


Gravatarred rum red rum


GravatarI heard that George Bush screws old cabbage.

Lettuce prey.


GravatarNoting that you apparently have both arms, is your recovery sustainable? Somewhat weak, but steady? Gaining strength, yet with no signs of inflation? Does it flow from productivity miracles, or does it require constant foreign cooperation?


GravatarMiB
Mint in Box

Hey, it's the Comic Book Guy.


GravatarAtrios is the pseudonym of Duncan Black, a 32 year old recovering economist living in Center City Philadelphia


Oh Mother of Sweet Baby Hayzues in a Hand Basket!

But, I mean, not that there's anything wrong with that.



Funny, you don't look Jewish...
dave

Agreed, Dave, but the obvious question is, does he look Atriosish.

..


GravatarMiB= Mission impossible Bush


GravatarWhat a doll you are. You look like your own man to me.
Joe Trippi tuned me on to your blog.
It's the only blog I trust.

If I had your telephone number I would call you drunk in the middle of the night and whisper
" you're my hero"
Remember what Lenny Bruce used to say
about female fans?


Gravatarwhere is sidney?


GravatarMiB- Mouth in Bush


GravatarMadame Atrios sera jalouse!


Gravatar" She was wearing a see-through dress and I didn't want to"

We could use Lenny now.


GravatarHey Atrios, I think it's real cool & honorable for you to 'come out'. It's meaningful when you do it at a time like this.

Me and my brother like your website a lot.

Props forever.


GravatarWhere did the gym teacher rumor come from, then?

Personally, I think Sid Blumenthal was behind Media Whores Online.

Superb prose style, and the site's hiatuses coincided with his book deadline and book tour.


GravatarI'm pretty sure sid had nothing to do with MWO.


GravatarWhat is it that a recovering economist doesn't do to be one?


GravatarThink dismal.


GravatarBut I thought there was turtleneck involved. Obviously and imposter!
I hope this doesn't mean that you'll be distracted by fame. Your continual posting is what keeps me coming back.
Thanks

Charlie


GravatarWar president' Bush has always been soft on terror

His campaign says vote Republican or die - but he lets al-Qaida off the hook

Craig Unger
Saturday September 11, 2004
The Guardian

Craig Unger is the author of House of Bush, House of Saud

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment


GravatarOh yeah old knews. It was really disappointing actually.

Another damn economist.

Why couldn't you be a high-powered business man or something? Bah.


GravatarI'm pretty sure sid had nothing to do with MWO.

Well, that proves that he did! That and some shit having to do with kerning...


GravatarWith all rumors there is always a kern-al of truth.

Someone has had to have done that one already.


GravatarTim Robbins? I see a John Tesh, Tom Brokaw love child with a cool site.


GravatarI've been fantasizing about a dark-haired Atrios for lo the past 2 years, and now look at you! What will I do?

What's the reference to MMFA about? Are you working for them now? I must've missed something.


GravatarThis picture is clearly forged! I made one just like it with Windows Photoshop.


GravatarTim Robbins for sure with some elements of Tweety (but we don't always like him too much).

Definitely NOT Hitchens, drunk or sober.

I'm going to miss the mystery (sigh)


GravatarAtrios, if you're still online, what i was saying earlier about praying your server holds on election night, your server WILL hold, right? I mean we have enough of the election to worry about without having to worry about your server too! Please reasure us Atrios! If you need $ for a stronger server, just tell us, we'll help!


GravatarHey Atrios,

Now that you're out, how about letting another lefty blogger (Drum or Big Media Matt or somebody) interview you?

I, for one, would love to hear the inside dope of how you got into this (and why you were pseudo, and why you aren't now, and what affect that has on things, etc etc etc....)


GravatarI wish Blumenthal was on the Kerry team! I've followed him for years and I know that he and I think alike! The downward path of Hitchens started with the Sid betrayal! I think that the guilt finally started eating away at Hitchens and he had to reject that side of himself. Well that and a lot of booze! 2:00 A.M. and I'm on my first drink of the night. WHERE'S MY WHISKEY!


Gravatarfor whatever reason i always pictured atrios with black hair. i can't explain it. maybe it's the philly thing.


GravatarWait a minute... What about the set to with Sullivan about how you weren't a manly man because you were anonymous?
Can he now challenge you to a duel?

Oh yeah. That weird drama happened already last week.


GravatarI'm going to miss the mystery (sigh)

for whatever reason i always pictured atrios with black hair. i can't explain it.


Reminds me of when, after several years of listening to Paul Harvey every schoolday at lunch back in the '60s, I saw him speak at a Chamber of Commerce dinner. Didn't look anything like himself.
-


GravatarThis picture is clearly forged! I made one just like it with Windows Photoshop.
Anonymous


Fuck, my cat just made one with a broken crayon.

An' he's not even a year old!

An' I also saw the first plane crash into the First Trade Center Tower, there was a TV on, I thought, that guy must be a bad piolet.

When you get a male cat fixed, what do you call it, I mean, what's it's gender?

Here's our cat, it used to be male?

Or do you say, here's a furry thing that acts like a pillow, used to be a cat.


GravatarWhy should any of us care what your profession is or what you look like?
We know that you aren't working for evil purposes like the ones who currently run this country. But I must confess that I've recently started to wonder whether the goal is worthwhile....I mean who on here really thinks the human race is really worth saving?


Gravatarnick howard

Come on Nick, buck up. Don't be going all George Carlin on us.
We can create a better reality. At least on that is net less evil.

That is worth doing.

Be of good cheer.


GravatarVery good article by William Rivers Pitt:

Dumbest. Election. Ever.

It's sad 'cause it's true.


GravatarI mean who on here really thinks the human race is really worth saving?
nick howard


Most people here who are over 14 years old really think that, would be my guess.

If it's not worth saving--or trying to save--grab a noose and lead by example.


GravatarThe mystque. . . it's gone. . . Duncan??? What kind of a name is Duncan! And you're so pasty white man. . . get into the sun light once in a while. . . Ahh. . . Innocence lost. . .


GravatarWhen you get a male cat fixed, what do you call it, I mean, what's it's gender?

Here's our cat, it used to be male?

Or do you say, here's a furry thing that acts like a pillow, used to be a cat.
agave


More importantly why is it called "fixed"
It sounds sinister. I'm sure the cat didn't feel "broken" before.


GravatarDumbest. Election. Ever.

It's sad 'cause it's true.


And he wrote that even before we got into this bullshit with typefaces...


GravatarI'm just glad that you didn't reveal yourself following that silly Andrew Sullivan dust-up


GravatarDude, I'm totally going to submit the Duncan Black picture to Fark as a photoshop contest.

You'll always be Atrios to me.

(Atrios reader since Jan 2003 - referred by cursor - when I was in a classified location in the middle east waiting for the war to start ... back when almost everyone was certifiably insane)


GravatarMore importantly why is it called "fixed"
It sounds sinister. I'm sure the cat didn't feel "broken" before.


Damn, I could have sworn I put fixed in Quotation marks. Musta just thought it.


GravatarI hope you didn't think all those cracks about blond bimbos apply to you? Those were bottle blonds, I can see that you're natural. Doesn't apply to natural blonds, unless they enhance.

Anyway, you provide one of the best news sources, even if one has to wade through the troll shit and other noise. Since I provide some of that noise I've got nothing to complain about there.

May you go on to ever better blogging.

yours truly,
EPT


Gravatargrab a noose and lead by example.
Philalethes | Email | Homepage |

I'm apoligize to all that I expressed my depression on this board. I should not have done that and it won't happen again.

(But when even the good guys urge a depressed person to commit suicide .....it just makes me feel about the human race the same way I felt today when I found out that my doctor, who I thought was one of finest people I'd ever met, was urging his patients to be sure to get out the vote for Bush.)


Gravatarnick howard --- Work as though you're living in the early days of a better nation. Begin by working to find a new doctor, yours has clearly forgotten the part about do no further harm . . .


GravatarAtrios,

I have a son at Brown. Doesn't mean he will become an economist, does it?

I was kind of hoping he would follow in my footsteps.


GravatarI want somebody to design a new poster. big, with pictures of all the good guys. Atrios, Kos, Gilliard, Clarke, Wilson, Reich, Dean, Moore, etc, etc, etc.

BIG damn poster, and at the top: New American Heroes.


GravatarHey everyone... go to this site and let CNN(ie. the Hurricane Channel) know that they suck and put pressure on those pansies to report the news.

http://www.cnn.com/feedback/cnntv/


GravatarWhy is the post dated September 2003 but the photo is taken at the 2004 convention?


GravatarAtrios, yer gorgeous! Seriously, you are extremely photogenic, and I imagine, telegenic, no less. I really would like to see you give more interviews now that you're "out," just to try and inject some sanity and intelligence into this national debate.


Gravatar
on election night, your server WILL hold, right?


We can do a test on the first debate night.


GravatarAtrios, yer gorgeous!

That's nothing--at the convention, I saw him in shorts!

(Actually, the shorts were hideous. But he does have shapely calves.)


GravatarWhy is the post dated September 2003 but the photo is taken at the 2004 convention?

The kerning looks a bit suspicious, too.


GravatarOK- WFT is up with Kerry's campaign? It looks like the pussies are back in Kerry's campaign. Explain to me this:

From the NYT:

Mr. Kerry's advisers concede that the drumbeat of attacks from Mr. Bush has been effective. But divisions have surfaced in the campaign and in the party over how best - and how far - to take on Mr. Bush.

adn then:

Officials said these attacks were being made through the party and not the campaign to provide a measure of distance from Mr. Kerry, who is described by many officials as reluctant himself to impugn the president's character.

Now, the more difficult question, officials say, is just how the Kerry campaign - even if Mr. Kerry does not take part directly - should go after Mr. Bush. Some of Mr. Kerry's closest friends and longtime political operatives from Boston, who have now set up shop at Democratic headquarters in Washington, are pressing for more, saying the campaign and the candidate must go on the offensive, to restore Mr. Kerry's own character as a political asset and to hold Mr. Bush accountable for attacks on Mr. Kerry.

These friends and former aides, led by David Thorne, a Yale classmate, fellow Navy veteran and brother of Mr. Kerry's first wife, are agitating for the candidate himself to answer what they called the character-assassination attacks of people like Vice President Cheney and members of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. They are pushing for Mr. Kerry to make a dramatic statement of his own to settle voters' doubts about Mr. Kerry's Vietnam War period.

Officials in the campaign, however, including both longstanding consultants like Bob Shrum and new additions like Joe Lockhart and other veterans of the Clinton administration, have balked at such a move, saying it could be a disaster and alienate too many swing voters who would view such an approach as mean-spirited. They said Mr. Kerry would do better to concentrate on issues where he outperforms Mr. Bush in polls, like jobs and health care.


GravatarHrm.. Hurricane control. What do YOU think?

http://www.bariumblues.com/storm.../ storm_fury.htm


GravatarSure does take up the news right after the conventions...

Hrm.. Hurricane control. What do YOU think?

http://www.bariumblues.com/storm.../ storm_fury.htm

Odd there wasn't any terrorist chatter or threats during the Republican Convention but there was during the Democratic Conventions.

Ahh Rovie you are a genius...


GravatarDidnt we hear this three weeks ago?

"While Mr. Kerry's longtime friends from Boston privately express frustration that they have been unable to get Mr. Kerry to stand up for himself more, one senior Kerry aide said obliquely that the campaign still planned to address the attacks on Mr. Kerry in a dramatic way."


"You have not heard the last from us on this subject," the aide said."

Hey, I hope the strategy works, but why didnt they go negative when they had the lead. Now Rove will just convicne people that Kerry's is desperate. Mark my words-you will hear this line from the repubs really soon. It stills seems like nobody is in charge of that campaign


GravatarAhhh, now I know why you love Krugman so much. Between the two of you there could be a deluge of economics majors at the universities. Say good bye to liberal arts as the bastion of liberal thought!
For real, thanks for all you do.


Gravatar"EVERYBODY wants to be Mr. Black!"


GravatarI have my degree in econ also. I did not realize that economist could have such fun soing a blog


GravatarOkay, FINE... as long as we're being confessional and cathartic... I have wanted to ditch this "secret identity" business myself, long time. Here I go:



I am really....











JUDY WOODRUFF.



By posting as "Barry Champlain", it was the only way I could express myself honestly, and not have to live a lie, as a media whore.

(Wh--what's THAT? Atrios didn't MEAN to do it? He just got righteously schnockered last night, and outed himself ACCIDENTALLY? DAMN YOU, ATRIOS!!!!! )


GravatarI credit Brian Lamb from cspan for opening the door to the blogosphere, until then I had been fruitlessly watching the cable news, and something just rang hollow with them. Once I found Eschaton and Counterspin central, there was no turning back for me. I was LOST, LOST I tell ya, but now, a couple of hours a day to recharge the batteries, and I am impervious to the assault of a bought and paid for compliant media, bob novaks bounce off of me like so many raindrops, pucker carlsons fall by the wayside, helps me keep my sanity during thse times that try men's souls...


GravatarPleased to meet you, Mr. Black. Kind of odd seeing the real you, but nice.


Gravatarnice to meet you mr. black
a face behind the blogging
thanks


GravatarB-b-but where's your long hair and your pot pipe and scruffy beard and tye-die shirt and your VW camper van and your Ben & Jerry's Peace Pop? And why are you standing in front of a political convention and not a Dead show?


GravatarAnyone know how or why the outing happened? First pic and ID of Atrios I saw was the first or second day of the DNC on Tom Tomorrow's page. Same day I saw a post echoing D.B.'s MMFA bio. I'm guessing he told Tom he decided to give it up. But at the time, it seemed like Tom was spilling the beans because someone else already had.

DB. Heh, gotta love those initials. Sorry about losing the leg in Iraq.


GravatarDuncan, I had no idea you were so Babe-a-licious !

Liberalism triumphs once again.


GravatarWell, well. Meet Mr. Black. Glad to see you *out* and about. Hope it doesn't make life unpleasant for you (freepers). Nice to put a face to the blogger.


GravatarMethinks Bobbie Burns had a Duncan Black in mind when he wrote;
Ye see yon birkie ca'd a lord
Wha struts an' stares an' a' that
Tho hundreds worship at his word
He's but a coof for a' that
For a' that an' a' that
His ribband, star and a' that
The man o' independant mind
He looks an' laughs at a' that

Just sayin'...


GravatarHey Duncan, err... atrios!

I'll admit having a mild curiosity about your identity, though I didn't mind your anonymity.

Former economist? No wonder when you talk about economics, your posts are rather concise and well-thought-out.

Ok. I'm actually Michael Moore, people. That's why when I say I don't like Moore that much, to deflect people away from my true identity.



J/k of course. Though I do sort of look like him, espeically when I wear a baseball cap and don't shave.


GravatarYou look very much like yourself.


GravatarWow! Pleased ta meecha Duncan Black!

"You are who you pretend to be, so be careful what you pretend." --Kurt Vonnegut

Atrios=DB

Nice. Blog on, my friend. You've kept us all sane.


GravatarNow get yourself on TV and do some serious damage.


GravatarMy ex husband used to say that he was an economist b/c he lacked the personality of an accountant.

It was true.


GravatarAdorable. Simply adorable. The missus A. is a lucky lucky lady indeed.


GravatarThanks, Atrios.

For everything.


Gravatari love you, man, but...Son of Tweety comes to mind.


GravatarPlease put on the grey turtle neck. I can only picture you in a turtle neck.


GravatarWhy "recovering" economist?


GravatarI knew it was bad timing to be on vacation during the DNC, since it's at that time that your ID was mentioned in other blogs, and I missed it. I only found something weird when I found your unblurred pics from the Tank, with both the Atrios and Duncan Black captions on different ones.
Whatever, take care and let's hope you won't be stalked like Krugman.
Now, since Billmon is also an economist and seems to be in Philly, well, ...


GravatarI ignore the computer last night, sleep late, miss all the fun stuff...

We've had so many new folks join the fray recently that a lot of 'em probably didn't know about this. I first saw a pic of Atrios (the name's gonna stick, no matter what) linked indirectly from a huge DNC blogger site during the convention (duh). But there'd been the odd "d u n c a n b l a c k" appearing at different times at the foot of the blog before... hadn't noticed that until someone pointed it out.

The mystery was fun; the reality's fine. Doesn't change the fact that this is The. Best. Place. To. Hang. Ever. I've learned so much in less than a year of haunting this place, thanks to Atrios and a truly stellar group of commenters.

(And I'm throwing in with whoever, on the linked post, described A as a cross between Tim Robbins and Peter Krause -- and what a nice cross it is.)


GravatarThe Noble and Most Ancient House of Black!

How's Sirius doing, by the way? Is he still doggin' it?


GravatarDamn. Now I have to worry if my posts make me look fat.


GravatarHe needs Krugmanesque bristles.

BlackBeard


GravatarwOW! I'm shocked! You're handsome! Truly, I'm just shocked! :-P


GravatarFor a substitute gym teacher you sure look a little soft in the middle there buddy!



MYOB'
.


GravatarJefe said:
And if Kerry wins... there's going to be fucking in the streets...

Absolutely! I'm so passionate about this election, I don't think my husband will be able to handle me come election night. I'll have to toss out all rules and make out with every liberal guy on the street! haha


GravatarWell....looking back at the archives, the MMF disclaimer started the week of 9/15-21/02, so I guess the clues have been out there for quite some time.


GravatarI'm apoligize to all that I expressed my depression on this board. I should not have done that and it won't happen again.

(But when even the good guys urge a depressed person to commit suicide


Nick, I apologize for saying that. However, if it's any consolation, I'm
constantly plagued by the same feelings, and the "deal with it or kill yourself" response is one I've told myself very many times indeed. To me, depression is like having a really stupid person broadcast utter bullshit directly into your skull; I find that the stark life-or-death choice of accepting it or not focuses me. So I'm not giving you any advice I
wouldn't give myself.

But I do agree that it's not a great idea to say utterly depressing
things here. Personally, I come here as an ESCAPE from morbid, defeatist
thoughts--and I don't think I'm alone in that. Still, apologies for the
cold tone...it has as much to do with my own defective noggin and hyper-
anxious frame of mind as anything else.


GravatarYou're Duncan Black, the economist? Back from the dead, I see.

Yeah, and I'm Julia Child, who also faked her death and is now hiding out in a farmhouse in Normandy for tax purposes.


GravatarLefty bloggers are sexy


And hang in there, Nick... good doctors and good therapists have saved my life. You should have a talk with your MD, methinks, or at least mention something to his staff. Urging people to vote is one thing, but urging people who to vote for is quite another...


GravatarI am a recovering economist myself. The hardest part was unlearning all of the far-right Chicago School theory taught at most Midwest universities. Although I am politically active and liberal, I find it easier to be a full-time wise-ass.


GravatarA belated congrats on your outing. I guess a dark screen and a voice disguiser thingy wouldn't go over well at your confirmation hearing. Ambassador to Luxembourg is it?


GravatarDude, what's up with that tie? Ya gotta straighten it out...


Gravatarwho cares...just keep posting.
-


GravatarAtrios

I notice that this revelation has been widely published, so I have to ask why would you bother to 'out' yourself now?

It's a retorical question. I know why.
Because you are a man of honor.

I respect you for it.


Gravatar1st reaction: Kind of cute, but definitely not my type. 2nd reaction: What does it matter, I'm old enough to be your mother anyway. Sigh.


Gravatarsince sept 2003? then what's w/the pic from the DNC
yeshai, gambier OH | Email | Homepage | 09.11.04 - 12:37 am | #


I AM ATRIOS - as you can tell my picture was altered. Hackers.. hackers sent by Karl Rove.. changed my photo. You can tell, because it should say Sept 2004


Gravataroops - the anonymous 6:35pm was mine.


Gravataryou sorta look like chris matthews
HA!


GravatarYou are kinda cute. Too bad you don't bat for the hom team.
Damn, all the good ones are either married or straight, and sometimes both.


Gravatarreal economists

wear

red

ties


Gravatartool


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