OK, I'm Depressed

Well, the New York Times interviewed Mickey Kaus^* on the occasion of his run for Senate, which seems to be driven by his need to cock punch DFH's, though his primary opponent Barbara Boxer is a woman, which kinds of screws up the metaphor.

In any case, he was asked the following:

NYT: How much do they pay you?

Kaus: 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. I’m fortunate to make any money as a blogger. There are some who make more. Most of them work for The Atlantic.

Well, Brad Delong runs the numbers, and comes up with the following:

Mickey Kaus has written 54 posts in the past ten weeks--that's an average of 5.4 posts for each week in which he makes $1,800, or $333 a weblog post. This seems to me to be way out of line--suggesting some major source of labor-market monopoly is preventing Slate from rationalizing its labor costs.

(emphasis original)

Well, remember when I commented that I had made 10,625 Posts over the past 2¾ Years, and the first time that anyone asked to run an ad specifically on my content, it was for that bung dropper video?^†

The sum total of my creative value is two checks, each for a bit over $100, and a 3^rd one should be coming shortly, probably this month as I am less than a dollar away from the check cutting threshold.

This here is post number 10,710 so let's figure that I will have gotten $315 for about 10,900 posts, or about 2.9¢ a post.

If I figured it on a per word basis, I think that I'd retire to a monastery in Tibet, and I hate Yak butter.

Still, who reads Kaus? Seriously.

^*Who has still not denied that he blows goats.
^†I was turned down, because I could not demonstrate ownership, it ain't mine, and because they were concerned that butchering a carcass was not "family safe".