Already Reconsidering

While a lot of the blogosphere has been vicious, my first glance at the newly hatched Huffington Post was fairly positive. Sure, nothing earth-shattering, but a nice design, some interesting names and even a few decent points made.

But that was hours ago. I just looked at it again and, as Captain Spaulding said to Mrs. Rittenhouse, actually it is pretty bad.

While I like the idea of a lot of content, most of what's there is pretty lifeless, and mindless too. For example, Larry Gelbart showing us stuff he cut from Mastergate isn't too compelling.

Much worse is Rob Reiner's ridiculous thoughts on the media. I wouldn't mind if the nonsense were original, but he's recycling echo chamber leftism so tired the Daily Kos wouldn't touch it. And that's the trouble--Reiner is not declaiming at a Malibu cocktail party here, he's competing with other blogs, who can already do what he does a lot better.

Alas, the blog doesn't allow comments. That might make it worthwhile--see which Hollywood heavyweight can go an extra round or two before his publicist intervenes. I mean I could do a point-by-point refutation of Reiner on Pajama Guy but what fun is that--I want to know he's actually hearing the sound of someone disagreeing with him. (To give an example of what he considers an important point, he's yet one more who thinks the mainstream media isn't paying enough attention to the troubles in Iraq, suggesting HE HASN'T LOOKED AT THE FRONT PAGE OF A NEWSPAPER IN TWO YEARS. And he's so behind the times he's still dining out on the ancient and dishonest PIPA poll about what Bush versus Kerry supporters think.)

Enough. Ask me again in an hour and we'll see.