Related, the thing about blogs in Ye Olden Days, and the internet generally then, was the conversational nature that was made possible by easy linking to text. I don't fault anyone for putting up paywalls - we all gotta eat - but the rise of a new blog ecosystem that is largely behind a paywall (paying a bunch of bigots really well) is not the same thing.
Ah, well, no good deed goes unpunished, and no bad deed unrewarded, it seems.
