Comments on: Black. Duncan Black.

Black. Duncan Black.

PinkStainlessTail — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 12:31:19 -0800

The true identity of the "mysterious" Atrios has been revealed.

By: matteo

matteo — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 12:41:46 -0800

this is bad because I've been posing as Atrios for months now -- getting lots of free drinks, dinner invitations, sex

By: jpoulos

jpoulos — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 12:45:01 -0800

I am ~~Spartacus~~ Atrios.

By: nofundy

nofundy — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 12:58:44 -0800

I am Duncan Black.

By: KirkJobSluder

KirkJobSluder — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 13:01:47 -0800

Who is he and why should we care?

By: kgasmart

kgasmart — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 13:02:12 -0800

So what's the deal with this - I was reading Atrios's coverage of the convention yesterday after being away from the computer for a few days, scrolled all the way down to the bottom and saw "A weblog by Duncan Black," and thought: Huh? Anyone got the goods on why he decided to unmask, now?

By: grabbingsand

grabbingsand — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 13:11:20 -0800

His name is Duncan Black.

By: falconred

falconred — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 13:13:25 -0800

What KirkJobSluder said. Can someone in the know give us the Reader's Digest version?

By: solistrato

solistrato — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 13:17:33 -0800

His name is Duncan Black.

By: DBAPaul

DBAPaul — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 13:20:48 -0800

I've heard his name is Duncan Black.

By: mrgrimm

mrgrimm — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 13:23:54 -0800

he's a blogger (see first link). a popular one. and he used a fake name b4. Markos Moulitsas Zuniga? as for why we should care who he really is? ...

By: mr.marx

mr.marx — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 13:27:29 -0800

Some people say his name is Duncan Black.

By: mrgrimm

mrgrimm — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 13:29:13 -0800

His name was Robert Paulsen.

By: brownpau

brownpau — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 13:29:17 -0800

Duncan Black is his name, but I hear he spells it really weird, in all lowercase with spaces between each letter, like "d u n c a n b l a c k." It's even that way on his license.

By: PrinceValium

PrinceValium — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 13:34:29 -0800

I just had some serious deja vu. Was he a grad student at Brown in the mid-90s?

By: plemeljr

plemeljr — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 13:49:18 -0800

Markos is from Daily Kos, Atrios has been a pseudonym from the beginning of the blog. I suspect that because of the large amount of money that his website raised, and because in American politics money = power, he had little choice but to reveal himself. From what I have gathered, it was an "open secret" for the last few months, but his attendance at the convention probably forced his hand at revealing himself.

By: shoepal

shoepal — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 13:50:23 -0800

"He's very red. Must be "angry" or a "communist" or something." -praktike (give that user a mefi account!)

By: trox

trox — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 13:54:12 -0800

From Mediamatters.org: Duncan B. Black holds a PhD in economics from Brown University. He has held teaching and research positions at the London School of Economics; the Université catholique de Louvain; the University of California, Irvine; and, recently, Bryn Mawr College. He also has been involved with grassroots political activism. Black is a Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America.

By: DenOfSizer

DenOfSizer — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 13:59:11 -0800

Duncan Black, the next time you're in New York, do please let me treat you to a drink, sir!

By: Outlawyr

Outlawyr — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:07:59 -0800

Word on the street is that his name is Duncan Black. I hear.

By: majick

majick — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:16:24 -0800

This Atrios, is it something I would have to give a shit about political weblogging to know about?

By: rcade

rcade — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:33:23 -0800

More than you probably wanted to know: Atrios is a liberal firebrand weblogger whose pseudonymously published site has become enormously popular, both in terms of traffic and the amount of money he has raised for Democratic political candidates this year. His reasoning for publishing under a pseodonym was because he was a teacher in Pennsylvania somewhere and didn't want to risk his day job. Now that he has parlayed his Internet microstardom into regular appearances on Air America Radio and invites to some big Democratic political gatherings and is earning at least $1,000 to $2,000 in BlogAds by my casual estimate, he probably realizes that (a) someone was going to out him, and (b) he ought to ride the fame train while he can. I like Atrios and have supported his site by buying ads in the past, but I've always been uncomfortable with people who take shots without subjecting themselves to the same scrutiny, so I'm glad he's going public.

By: lia

lia — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:33:34 -0800

Duncan Black, the next time you're in New York, do please let me treat you to a drink, sir! And let me treat you to dessert!

By: dhoyt

dhoyt — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:34:59 -0800

^if you know what she means

By: RobbieFal

RobbieFal — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:37:26 -0800

I won't admit my real name. Which reminds me to check to make sure I haven't. :D

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:42:12 -0800

Who's the black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks? DUNCAN BLACK! Damn right.

By: Ethereal Bligh

Ethereal Bligh — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:43:19 -0800

So, let me get this straight. The Atrios, is Duncan Black?

By: RavinDave

RavinDave — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:43:55 -0800

I loved him in "Shallow Hal".

By: pardonyou?

pardonyou? — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:51:54 -0800

I just loooove Duncan Black. He's just so ... dreamy!

By: cedar

cedar — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:54:56 -0800

I'm sure there are lots of reasons he 'revealed' himself, but wouldn't getting DNC credentials pretty much have blown any shot he had at remaining anonymous?

By: mokujin

mokujin — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:59:00 -0800

His name is Mua'dib. Others call him Usil.

By: bargle

bargle — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 15:01:20 -0800

He is an immortal who has sword fights with other immortals which results in crappy-looking lightning flying all over the place. During his free time he works for an outfit called the Millennium group. Or something like that.

By: majick

majick — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 15:02:31 -0800

Thanks, rcade. You have actually provided some kind of context to a post that is truly baffling to the uninitiated. Links to some random, obscure weblog (no matter how popular in it's little circle of friends) might be best prefaced with, you know, some idea of who the hell they are or why they're considered to be of interest. The clarification's appreciated.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 15:04:11 -0800

I heard Duncan Black once punched a hole in a cow just to see who was coming up the road. He uses live elk for toilet paper. He once had sex with a cigarette machine. Duncan Black once showed me a video of him making love to my wife, and it was the most beautiful thing I ever saw! Here's to Duncan Black! A ten foot tall, two ton son of a bitch who could eat a hammer and take a shotgun blast standing! apologies to all concerned. please don't hurt me.

By: trharlan

trharlan — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 15:16:10 -0800

Well, trox, he certainly lacks Krugman's pedigree (or even Delong's).

By: DenOfSizer

DenOfSizer — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 15:35:05 -0800

Well, that was quick.

By: briank

briank — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 17:54:39 -0800

And I just love his devil's food cake mixes! What?

By: reklaw

reklaw — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 18:10:06 -0800

Who the hell is Duncan Black?

By: MrBadExample

MrBadExample — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 18:12:45 -0800

If I had a name like Duncan Black, I wouldn't remain anonymous, because that name is too cool to hide. "...and the coach was robbed by the highwayman Duncan Black." "The port was sacked by the nefarious pirate, Duncan Black." "Duncan Black is...DANGERESQUE."

By: amberglow

amberglow — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 18:15:01 -0800

Secret Agent Duncan Black reporting in : >

By: aramaic

aramaic — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 18:24:43 -0800

Wait, who are we talking about?

By: inksyndicate

inksyndicate — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 18:32:15 -0800

Atrios always claimed to be a Pennsylvania P.E. teacher. Where does Pennsylvania teaching enter into the varied professor positions and career listed above?

By: Space Coyote

Space Coyote — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 18:43:08 -0800

I'm actually a bit disappointed to hear that he's just another poli sci professor, the idea of a regular-joe gym teacher who merely read the news and called a spade a space was extremely appealing.

By: calwatch

calwatch — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 18:48:12 -0800

Bryn Mawr is a Philadelphia suburb, and maybe Mr. Black happened to coach lacrosse or something.

By: calwatch

calwatch — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 18:53:08 -0800

For those who cared, it apparently was figured out a few months ago.

By: octobersurprise

octobersurprise — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 21:26:38 -0800

Aye, but is he Duncan Black of the Clan McBlack? I will say, he's younger than I imagined him and hotter than I imagined him. He's not Gene Lyons either. Or Sid Blumenthal. Anyway, I never really bought the whole gym teacher thing, 'cause he obviously posted pretty frequently--more frequently than your average gym teacher would have a chance to. I thought he was probably a local reporter or something.

By: Space Coyote

Space Coyote — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 22:25:56 -0800

s/space/spade/

By: rory

rory — Thu, 29 Jul 2004 02:22:05 -0800

P.E. = Political Economy.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Thu, 29 Jul 2004 02:44:01 -0800

No, I'm Atrios!

By: PinkStainlessTail

PinkStainlessTail — Thu, 29 Jul 2004 06:03:16 -0800

On reflection maybe I should have given more background, but I guess my thinking was that if you didn't already know of Atrios, you wouldn't give a shit that he had been named and skip the post.

By: rcade

rcade — Thu, 29 Jul 2004 06:26:09 -0800

I don't recall Atrios ever claiming to be a gym teacher. That speculation was offered by others.

By: wendell

wendell — Thu, 29 Jul 2004 15:23:49 -0800

They often call him Speedo, but his real name is Mister Earl.

By: Vidiot

Vidiot — Fri, 30 Jul 2004 00:34:36 -0800

I'm Atrios, and so is my wife.