SPEAKING OF KAUS, he emails that he’s afraid that people are going to start taking my tongue-in-cheek remarks about “megabucks” seriously:

I have a laptop, a cable modem, and NEXIS. I pay $100 a month — high, I suspect — to a good server (Modern Solutions) in Reno, Nevada. That’s about it. No employees. No interns. On cold winter days, I sometimes have to walk 10 miles in the snow just to blog. Try doing that in sandals!

So there. Seriously, Slate is treating him fairly, but they haven’t given him unlimited grazing rights in Bill Gates’ money-pastures yet. So don’t hit him up for money.