{"id":1250,"date":"2008-07-07T04:55:45","date_gmt":"2008-07-06T18:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2008-07-07T04:55:45","modified_gmt":"2008-07-06T18:55:45","slug":"drink-soaked-ex-trotskyite-popinjay-for-war-undergoes-waterboarding-for-vanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1250","title":{"rendered":"Drink-Soaked Ex-Trotskyite Popinjay For War Undergoes Waterboarding For Vanity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is funny, in a slightly awful<\/a> way: Christopher Hitchens voluntarily undergoing waterboarding in a valiant quest to determine if the practice George II has declared neat-o<\/a> is, indeed, torture<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You’ll never guess what he concluded<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In future issues of Vanity Fair<\/em>, word on the virtual street is that Christopher<\/a> will be attempting to answer other, similarly challenging questions. For example: Is undergoing oral sex — performed by, say, a willing intern — a pleasurable experience? Is tobacco-smoking habit-forming? Does one have a tendency to jog into battles<\/a> waving old school ties<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Scratch of the t-t-turntable<\/em> : ventz<\/a> | See also<\/em> : Australia: Release of secret reports highlights Labor\u2019s role in boosting spy agencies<\/a>, Mike Head, wsws.org, July 5, 2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is funny, in a slightly awful way: Christopher Hitchens voluntarily undergoing waterboarding in a valiant quest to determine if the practice George II has declared neat-o is, indeed, torture. You’ll never guess what he concluded. In future issues of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natas","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6AyE-ka","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}