You’ve got to check out Huffington’s Toast. Hat tip to Hog on Ice for that one. I found the Bluffington Post yesterday.
By the way, this is the real site.
Update: “Arianna” writes:
I am touched that so many of you unimportant little bloggers are linking to Huffington’s Toast! Arianna is grateful for your help, even though you are insignificant off-the-rack-wearing random persons of no breeding.I have also been linked by a microbe of a person named La Shawn Barber. I believe he is a professional basketballs player. No?
Update II (5/12): Cal Thomas says: “Increasingly, we are surrounded by people who write and speak to a single constituency – their own. The left is now trying to gin-up the same level of anger the right has used to propel itself into political power and media heaven by its dominance of talk radio and much of cable TV. It is failing, though, because the left continues to have numerous mainstream outlets for its ideas. The left’s problem is that people are familiar with those ideas and they are rejecting them.”
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I’m a big fan of Huffington’s–have been for a while. I was doubting this whole venture from the beginning. When she pitched this as being “Drudge-like,” I moaned and groaned. Call it what you will, but the Drudge Report is hardly a blog. He merely spits out and sensationalizes national headlines. Boring.
Huffington’s site is great because she’s bringing together people I am and am not familiar with. I’ve enjoyed most all of the posts I’ve read thus far, both right and left. It has its quirks and I have my complaints, but I’ll give her a couple weeks to get it all together.
As for the parody sites, I think they’re pretty darn funny, too.
Very funny! Adding it to the growing roster of parody sites…
I sent Arianna “A Math Lesson For Ariana Huffington” but she never replied to me. Perhaps basic math and the truth scared her. (take the test http://www.fromthepen.com/issue20.html . sorry, shameless self-plug, but relevant, nonetheless)
“Hollywood” doesn’t want to admit it, but they know darn well who La Shawn Barber is or else they’d have been quiet about it!
L-B-C! L-B-C!
That toast site is hilarious! I love the “unimportant people” post.
I’m sure she’s scrambling.
She’s got no advertising.
Where are all the promised celebrities? Considering all her Hollywood connections— She went from Ellen DeGeneres and John Kusak (not exactly luminaries)…..to nobody.
Salon, on a bad day, is better than what she’s got.
As my Grandmother would say: Ya don’t go havin an Open House if ya ain’t got nothin to show !!!
This is just hysterical…daaaahling…..
My goodness….she reminds me of zza zza gabor….
I think her nose is a little high on this one…
yikes!
Bucktowndusty,
The logic in your math post is lacking. Of course, gas consumption is the PRODUCT of
usage (miles driven) AND efficiency (gallons per mile). It doesn’t take a genius to deduce that if you own an SUV, but drive it very little, you don’t consume a lot of gas. Duh.
Summary of your post: “My sister owns ans SUV, but doesn’t drive it very much… therefore SUVs do not contribute to overconsumption of gas.”
I think Arianna is doing a great job raising awareness on how our fuel overconsumption not only leads to environmental and economic problems, but also political and national security as well. Of course, no one begrudges the use of SUVs by people who genuinely need them, whether for work, or for rural or mountainous environments… but do the ridiculously congested highways of LA, SF, NY, etc. really need to be clogged with bumper-to-bumper SUVs carrying soccer moms and dads with their groceries?
Any ONE individual doesn’t make much of an impact, but a city-full of people in aggregate do.
Have you seen the smog in LA?
I should get as many links as that … ahhh …
… ummm … p e r s o n. Whoa, that was tough.
Hi LaShawn.
La Shawn:
Huffington’s comments about basketball demonstrates her LEFTIST RACISM.
You do know that Huffington didn’t actually say that, right Frank? It’s a parody site.
Like Air America she got tons of free publicity.
Somebody seriously needs to make up “Free Facundo” shirts.
Sounds like “Arianna” on the toast site is a fan, La Shawn. I’m assuming they were being facetious.
Jab, were in total agreement. I wish we would switch to alternative fuels and cars that get 100 miles on gas; then we could tell the Middle East to stuff it.
However, you state,”gas consumption is the PRODUCT of usage (miles driven) AND efficiency (gallons per mile).” All I wanted to express is that with Arianna, she leaves out “usage”.
Regards
that Toast site got Bleat-level belly laughs from me. thanks for the fun link (and also for the serious good stuff too)
On Update II
You should really read Thomas’ entire column because he also speaks to blogging in general, questioning its legitimacy within the context of journalism and intellectualism.
Great site.
Here’s another parody.. not much, but it’s a start.
http://www.huffingpost.com
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