Mickey Kaus has joked that the upshot of blogging is “no deadlines and no editors in exchange for no money and no readers.” I guess that may be more than a joke:
Tim Noah, Dec. 14:
My Slate colleague and fellow Washington Monthly-style neoliberal Mickey Kaus (we also attended the same high school) will likely feel queasy when he discovers that his weblog is included in TomDeLay.com’s “Blog Roll” of linked sites, otherwise all hard-core right. Better shore up that left flank, Mickey!
Mickey Kaus, Dec. 9:
Welcome, Hammer readers!
Not only does Noah not read Kausfiles, but apparently Slate’s copy editors don’t either.
P.S. Blogroll is one word, it isn’t capitalized, and it doesn’t need scare quotes. Let me also direct your attention to:
The blogosphere and its impact on politics/the media/the arts/American life has been discussed to death. There is nothing left to say, particularly within the blogosphere itself. I propose that this topic be banned from all future public discourse.
Translation: I don’t have anything useful to say and I don’t want to bother thinking about it. Kaus may have ghettoized himself at Slate, but Noah is the irrelevant one.






