ARIANNA'S MEGA-BLOGIt's Launch Day for The Huffington Post

The long-awaited day has arrived. Arianna Huffington unveiled her mega-blog today — the radically chic's answer to The Drudge Report (see "Drudge Team May Break Up" and "The`Progressive' Drudge").

Contrary to earlier reports, Huffington's Web site bears the name The Huffington Post rather than The Huffington Report. Beyond that, we at Moonbat Central cannot bring ourselves to comment. We are, in fact, speechless.

By contrast, the LA Weekly's Nikki Finke has a great deal to say about The Huffington Post — none of it very nice, we regret to say. Finke's piece is called, "Arianna's Blog Blows: Will This Failure Finally Finish Her?"

UPDATE 05.10.05: A clarification seems in order. We believe in giving credit where it's due.

Nikki Finke's dire predictions notwithstanding, it would seem that Mrs. Huffington's mega-blog probably has a good chance of succeeding — though, as with most left-leaning Web sites (Salon, Slate, et. al.), it will no doubt require frequent and massive cash infusions from well-heeled radicals of the Soros 70 type.

I took the time this morning to browse The Huffington Post more carefully, and was impressed with its design, editing and general site management.

In fact, when I pronounced myself "speechless" last night, I was reacting precisely to the jarring spectacle of seeing so much mendacious, anti-social and empty-headed content presented so artfully and effectively. Plainly there is talent at work behind The Huffington Post. Alas that such talent would be squandered on a project so fundamentally ill-intentioned.