Funny, but it's not like it was all that hard to see it coming. After all, it was always clear that even God thought Roger L. Simon was a douchebag wearing a hat made out of douchebags.
The right used to be blessed. Until maybe 2003, our star was rising. Maybe that’s because we were more closely attuned to God. Now we think we have to dump God in order to attract voters. We keep hearing that the problem with the right is that the religious nuts hijacked it. But the right was stronger back when religious people had more power. And it will weaken more and more, as we get more desperate and distance ourselves from God.
You do have to admire this line, though: "PJM’s new hope is PJTV, a pay video site. Where you can pay to watch Glenn and Helen Reynolds. This is not unlike asking people to pay to be punched in the face." Because the inevitable conclusion is that if even God-bothering dingalings like Mr. Hog were able to spot the flaws in the Pajamas Media "business model," what was everyone else's major malfunction? I mean, Pam Gellar has an excuse -- she's a mental patient:
There is a grain of truth there -- nobody ever doubted for a second that Pam "lives on fumes." Or that there is lavish financial support for liberal blogs. Whiskey Fire, for instance, has a pretty interesting and unusual financing model. See, what happened is, I got something that in economic lingo is known as a "job," and I use the revenue stream provided to me by this "job" in order to undergird the elaborate fiduciary network that supports my blog, which consists of me paying $15 to TypePad every month. (I understand that there are even ways to blog for free, but I dismiss these rumors as unfounded hype.) I mean, you all helped me buy a laptop last year; thanks. But I'm not really getting the "send me a lot of money every month so I can blog" thing. I don't even have ads up, which I'd like to say is because I'm adhering to some sort of strict principle or other, but is more to do with the fact that I'm very very lazy and have not gotten around to putting any up yet. It's only been 2 1/2 years, after all, what's the rush...
As I've said before, I blog out of spite, and anyone who does not blog out of spite is a blockhead.
And in that respect, the collapse of Pajamas Media is one hell of a payday.
MORE. Now, THIS is funny, from Mr. Douchehat himself:
We disbanded the ad network part of our business for a simple reason: it was losing money and we couldn’t see how in the reasonable future that would change.
Actually that part of our business has been losing money from the beginning, so the people getting their quarterly checks from PJM were getting a form of stipend from us in the hopes that advertisers would start to cotton to blogs and we could possibly make a profit. Didn’t happen. No wonder those people are kicking and screaming now that they are off the dole. I might too. [What's their beef? I thought most of them were free marketeer libertarians or something.-ed. Go figure.]
Like Simon himself isn't playing with someone else's money. This is the biggest hog at a rapidly shrinking trough oinking out his opinion that the other inmates of the sty should stop acting like pigs.
I mean, sane people in the reasonable past couldn't see how they'd ever make money. Even us commie socialists!
EVEN MORE. Funny. Almost as entertaining as the apparently straight-faced claim, as observed in Douchehat's comments (thanks marindenver) that Douchehat should have TOLD bloggers running the ads that the ads were losing money. They are shocked, shocked! to find loss-leading on a moronic business plan going on in here... the wingnut conception of the Free Market, ladies & germs! (Polite applause, mild laughter)
