So much social media!

Hey Ezra,

Do you plan to respond to the FireDogLake post (linked on HuffPo) that Jon Gruber received hundreds of thousands in HHS contracts?

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2010/01/07/jonathan-grubers-rent-a-scholarship/

Would be interested in your thoughts. Does this matter?

One request, since you seem to have stroke with the webmaster - please make it possible to subscribe to comments, so a comment thread one is engaged in will send an email as new comments accrue.

I have this simple feature in all my blogs, surely you can manage the same here?

gocowboys, what exactly needs to be responded to there? Let's grant that he should have disclosed those contracts. That does not speak at all towards which arguments he made that were faulty. A conflict of interest should cause one to re-examine the person's arguments skeptically, but which specific argument are you skeptical about that has not been addressed to your satisfaction?

Thanks.

Now could you ask the webmaster to format the blog page so it renders on mobile browser? It currently takes forever to load, and requires scrolling through 27 screens of headers, menus, and other kludge before getting to the latest post. On this, Yglesias has you beat by a mile.

If there is more inside-the-beltway dissociation from the views of most of America, isn't it intensified by the increasing internet-based reflexive process?

Adding faster ping-pongs to beltway-reflexive tendencies seems a kind of crowding out.

After all, the more you twitter, the less time there is for reading slower, deeper stuff. A matter of priorities I suppose.

Booo! Klein goes Sarah.

Joining rosshunter and jeirvine in techno requests:

1. Please format blog page so responses to a particular commenter line up under that person's name. Hard to describe, but see baselinescenario's set up.

2. Please make this blog, including comments, available to kindle users.

Thanks!

Chris - sorry if I wasn't clear, but I was really just interested in Ezra's take and was not personally doubting any of Gruber's points. Hence the, "Does this matter?" I asked at the end. I agree with your point entirely, and conflicts of interest do not mean his work isn't relevant. But I did want to hear Ezra speak on it, especially since I don't have the time to consider it all that thoroughly.

You should have a link for reddit!