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The Friedman, or Friedman Unit (F.U.), is a tongue-in-cheek neologism
coined by blogger Atrios (Duncan Black) on May 21, 2006.
A Friedman is a unit of time equal to six months in the future.The
Huffington Post cited it as the "Best New Phrase" of 2006.
The term is in reference to a May 16, 2006 article by Fairness and
Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) detailing journalist Thomas Friedman's
repeated useof "the next six months" as the period in which, according to
Friedman, "we're going to find out...whether a decent outcome is possible"
in the Iraq War. As documented by FAIR, Friedman had been making such
six-month predictions for a period o
