i've been a paid subscriber at salon.com for years now, since they first started asking for money. it seems they have a lot of interesting articles like this one that never make it to the front page, most of which i miss. i wish they had better filters in place.
I am pretty sure that this article did make it to the front page as I remember reading it a long time ago. It is a relatively old article so you may have forgotten it or it may have come up at a time you were not following Salon that seriously.