Remainders: The Magical Mr. Mistoffelees

• Jon Stewart has no illusions — if he were any funnier, he’d be dead. [The Apiary]

• Anheuser-Busch responds to market forces by getting liquored up. [Reuters]

• The Consumer Federation of America declares the real-estate industry a “cockamamie cartel.” National Association of Realtors fires back with, “I know you are but what am I?” [Freakonomics]

• Their de facto monopoly lost, the New York Times decides falling circulation numbers are the result of a “difficult economic environment.” Yeah, that’s it. [Jeff Matthews Is Not Making This Up]

• Speaking of monopoly, Bush finds reading with a monocle pretty hard, so he gives it up. [Whiskey Bar]

• Jerome Armstrong and Markos Moulitsas are the toughest extortionists this side of a MacBook Pro. [The New Republic]

• According to Nino Scalia, when you’ve got a job for life, sixteen years ago seems like yesterday. [The Agitator]

• Anderson Cooper interviews Angelina Jolie about “Her Mission & Motherhood,” and they still don’t beat O’Reilly. We smell Satan. [TVnewser]

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Catching John Kerry With His Pants Down

Yesterday’s NYT Magazine contained an interesting interview with Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, of Daily Kos fame. Here are some highlights:

How do you support yourself these days? Does Daily Kos bring in enough advertising revenue to enable you to eat?

Last year, I probably earned somewhere between $70,000 and $80,000. I live comfortably. My wife and I just bought a house here in Berkeley.

Not bad; but not exactly encouraging to people hoping to hit it rich from blogging. (Of course, Kos also has a new book out, which seems to be selling well.)

Is it odd to live so far from Washington and spend every nanosecond of your life writing about it?

No. I avoid Washington like the plague. And I generally avoid politicians. I find them quite dull.

Have you met John Kerry?

Only once. I was in a bathroom stall next to him at the Democratic National Convention. I didn’t say hello. It was a private moment for him.

Our apologies if you were reading this over lunch.

Kos Célèbre [NYT]

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