{"id":437,"date":"2006-08-28T08:38:48","date_gmt":"2006-08-28T13:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2006\/08\/28\/about-hubris\/"},"modified":"2006-08-28T09:04:58","modified_gmt":"2006-08-28T14:04:58","slug":"about-hubris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2006\/08\/28\/about-hubris\/","title":{"rendered":"about hubris…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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hu·bris<\/strong> (hy\"\"\"\"br\"\"s)
n.<\/div>\n
Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance: “There is no safety in unlimited technological hubris” (McGeorge Bundy). <\/div>\n
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hubris<\/strong><\/a>. (n.d.). The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition<\/em>.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War<\/strong><\/a> hasn’t come yet [release date October 3, 2006] so I’ve only read about<\/u> it. Like many, I’m already balking at the "innocent gossip" theory of Richard Armitage’s<\/strong> leaking Plame’s identity, as if I know what the book says. So I’ll reserve judgement and just react to the raw data for now. Both Christy<\/strong><\/a> at Firedoglake<\/strong><\/font> and emptywheel<\/strong><\/a> at The Next Hurrah<\/strong><\/font> suggest that Novak had to have another source that told him the details of Plame’s job at the C.I.A. [and they’re both front-line Plame-ologists!]. <\/p>\n

But that aside, the title’s use of the word "hubris<\/strong>" is perfect. Of that, I’m already sure. And we all appreciate David Corn and Michael Isakoff running down "case zero." <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

hu·bris (hybrs) n. Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance: “There is no safety in unlimited technological hubris” (McGeorge Bundy). hubris. (n.d.). The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War hasn’t come yet [release date October 3, 2006] so I’ve only […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}