Totten follows the money.

As a livelihood, being a freelance journalist or a blogger supported by reader contributions is strictly from hunger. That’s the reason why most bloggers have day jobs. This is not an opinion, it is a fact. One that is easily checked by trying it yourself. So if Michael was following the money, he’d follow it right out of blogging.

How easy it is to be so sure of things. Supercargo is sure of the nonexistence of God. The futlity of NATO. The monetary avidity of Michael Totten. But while these issues are separable, when you examine one assertion carefully — that Totten follows the money — it turns out to be completely false. So what is the assurance the rest of Supercargo’s analysis is accurate? Only what evidence he can actually produce. All these assertions based on supposed obviousness are nothing but unsupported opinions. And everyone has those.