Burn, Hollywood, burn

If you haven't checked it out yet, go and check out The Huffington Post, a mega-group blog made up mostly of Hollywood lefties and their hangers-on in the comparatively respectable world of Washington, D.C.

It'll either be the most entertaining blog evs, or the shortest lived. Or possibly both. Something like 250 folks have signed up for this thing, and I'm a bit curious to see if the site can even handle all that dead cultural weight, or whether the internet will melt from all the hot air.

Fer instance, check out John Cusack's brief recounting of his trip to Hunter S. Thompson's memorial service. One is left with the impression that Thompson was some sort of celebrated anti-war activist, a white, mountainist Mumia for the severely drug addled (as opposed to the managably drug addled) instead of an once-great author lately of declining talent and import.

Or read Ellen DeGeneres' bizarre post about something that Congress does to kill wild horses. Or something.

And this is just it's first day!

Other contributors include, but are by no means limited to: David Mamet, Larry David, Michael Isikoff, Harry Shearer, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, and Marshall Herkovitz.

Surprisingly, John Adams' iPod made the blogroll! A small quibble, though, in that they seemed to have misspelled the name of the blog. They wrote it as "Instapundit." I'm sure they'll get it fixed soon.