HOTSOUP!!!!!!! Matt‘s already talked a bit about the new social networking site where you get to — gasp! — meet Carter Eskew, or a variety of other washed-up, establishment operatives, but I just want to point out Gawker’s comment, which seems to get the venture just right. HOTSOUP.com: “[Because] what the Internet needs more than anything right now is a junior varsity version of The Huffington Post.”

–Ezra Klein

Ezra Klein is a former Prospect writer and current editor-in-chief at Vox. His work has appeared in the LA Times, The Guardian, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Slate, and The Columbia Journalism Review. He’s been a commentator on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and more.