 Last Saturday, I made the mistake of reading The New York Times Magazine. There's an interview with Slate blogger and soon to be California Senatorial candidate, Mickey Kaus (he's challenging Barbara Boxer on the hilarious grounds that she's too liberal). Kaus (pictured above) is known to me as the Slate dweeb who used to write a lot of frequently updated incoherent crap complete with an inordinate amount of boldface type for emphasis. What stands out from the interview, aside from his goofball photograph, is when they ask him how much money he makes blogging for Slate:
I had been making in the mid-90s, and then I had to take a pay cut along with everyone else, and I was making in the 80s.
How the hell did he get that job, again? I seriously wanna know, because the guy can't write for sh*t. I guess his dad was a federal judge or something? Kaus added that bloggers for The Atlantic make even more, which means other hacks like Megan McArdle are faring even better. Great. More reason to hate.
Anyway, if Slate pays a no name geek like Kaus that kinda money, what do you think a bestselling author like Hitchens takes home for his weekly column? Half a million? Christ. I want some reader input on this question.
It's all very troubling considering the fact that Slate pretty much sucks. Aside from Jack Shafer that is, and an occasional (and I stress occasional) freelancer. Shafer's a damn good reporter: the only consistently enjoyable and insightful column the site.
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