The Moulitsas' Fighting and Loveless Marriage
At Kos Media LLC, I sometimes check out other Kos Media websites. One is MotherTalkers, run by his wife, a former technology reporter with a California newspaper. MotherTalkers came about like this. Elisa Batista Moulitsas, the unhappy wife of Markos Moulitsas, was home miserable with nothing to do. So instead of Kos telling her to "Go in the kitchen and leave me alone" Kos basically said, "Go spend some time on this blog and just leave me alone." And so Mother Talkers was formed. She blogs as "Elisa" and if you can read between the lines, you can tell she is one very unhappy woman.
I say unhappy for she must know she's married to a monster as it was her first hand report that provided the factual basis for Markos going ballistic on a San Diego conceirge for no legitimate reason. And she drops a few more clues confirming that she knows, somewhere inside of her, that she's married to a horrible human being although she's too non-independent and weak to do anything about it. In this article, Mrs. Moulitsas talks about how her husband and she used to fight all the time. She writes:
My husband deferred his student loans, we stayed in and we watched a lot of TV, which is probably why we fought so much in those days
In this article she compares herself to a woman ready to leave her marriage because her husband wasn't making enough money. So shallow but she is Mrs. Moulitsas so I would expect nothing less. She was an undergraduate at Boston University, perhaps the snobbiest, most expensive, non Ivy League school in the country. Trust me it's had this reputation for decades and I've said long before I knew that she went there and he went there to law school.
She talks about being a blog widow because Moulitsas' life was 17 hours a day with a laptop. Again I'll give him credit for building up his site. I don't have 17 hours in a week to blog much less a day. If I wanted to make this a full time job I could create it and spend 12 hours a day doing so. I just have too much on my plate.
Now here is an example of the tolerance level of Elisa. So "safe."
Me, I never talk about politics or religion with somebody unless I know we agree
Now as a blog widow married to a guy incapable of love, you can just feel the "warmth." Quoting them again from the same SF newspaper article.
Still, he missed Valentine's Day this year. And heard about it.
"I said, 'Markos, this is too much. We never do anything anymore. You never talk about your feelings,' " Elisa said. " 'We never go dancing anymore.' "
" 'Yeah, I know, Honey,' " she recalls her husband replying. " 'But how many husbands can say that they helped their wives create a blog?' "
Yes it is hard for Markos to talk about his feelings because he's a monster. He feels nothing. (Except hate and rage that if it wasn't for his financial comfortability probably would have led to San Quentin one day.) However, he did create the blog for her and if you follow her readings closely, you can tell she is one shallow and unhappily married woman despite the millions of dollars coming into the piggy bank.
Great post, Dave. It rings very true.
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