Some big blog news worth mentioning. Everyone else is blogging an opinion; I may as well, too!

The Huffington Post debuted yesterday. All political and celeb gossip concerns aside, I have to say…it’s a very attractive design. Pleasing colors, easy on the eyes, and a lovely layout. (I guess you all know what’s on my mind lately.)

Content-wise, it’s a bore.

After all the hype, it’s just a list of minor celebrities, fading celebrities, never-were celebrities and anyone else they can cajole into posting (even Nikki Finke, who reveals they asked her to blog with them in a particularly devastating article).

That could be fine if these minor names had anything worth talking about, but they don’t. They’re all posting as though they’ve no idea what is already on the Internet. (Probably true for many of them.) I mean, subject lines like “Democrats: What Do They Stand For?” and “IRAQ: Exit or Empire?”… is this anything that you haven’t been reading on some blogs for the last five years? (And many of them do a much better job.)

Most of it’s just embarrassing. Would someone please inform Gary Hart that we have military bases on the soil of numerous allies and of beaten opponents (Iraq, oddly enough, is in both categories). Does he think we rule Germany because we have had a base there? M.A.S.H. writer/producer Larry Gelbart’s post is like a notepad of ideas for columns, most of which are so undeveloped that they shouldn’t be shared. Rob Reiner writes like my college-age niece who thinks she knows everything because she watches The Daily Show.

I think this proves that satire is becoming impossible. Before the site debuted, The UK Guardian featured a hilarious fake version of Huffington’s blog…the difference being that the imposter posters are much more interesting to read than the actual celebrities.

The only entertaining post with some original thoughts is from Danielle Crittendon, who I’ve never heard of. Oh, never mind, rereading the article I catch that she’s from my side of the political aisle. I didn’t know that when I wrote the first sentence above; I was trying to pay a non-partisan compliment!