Oh Christ, not only does it look like it was designed by Madamab, it features a column by Mudcat Saunders, the world’s worst fucking political strategist ever. Really, Mudcat makes Mark Penn look like a genius.

Actually, my first reaction was, “hate that top banner, but it’s not as ugly as Mediaite”.

Stop harshing on the elementary school kids.  But Tucker really doesn’t have an excuse, does he? Other than the fact that he’s about as in touch with plant intertubes as Palin is with the truth.

The Daily Caller design is one of those templates that comes with the software, which sucks.

But Treacher’s site is a total puke-bag. I haven’t seen anyone seriously use a Hobo font since I was laying press-type in ‘82. Horsey composition, man—truly “Ted Mack” graphics.

So ... he decided not to stick with the Klassic and Klassy “Mother May I Sleep With Treacher?”

I can see why they got Arianna to do a post, since they stole her layout. But why did they use a tarted up picture of Bill Murray as Gorby?

Whoever designed Treacher’s banner has mad MSPaint skillz

Too much text.  If I find it annoying, it’s definitely going to scare away the base.

I haven’t seen anyone seriously use a Hobo font since I was laying press-type in ‘82.

Thanks, Strange. I was trying to ID that font but, like you said, it’s been so long that I’ve seen anyone use it for forgot what it was called.

Looks like they stole the Washington Times’ old template. And while I was looking it over some busy little gnome was cleaning up the layout.

Obama’s promised change? Bubba says ‘git ’er done’
By Mudcat Saunders   01/11/10 at 12:24 am

Do I need some kind of waiver to join the Nation of Islam, or can I just sign up?

Treacher is positively giddy over the start of this scintillating enterprise, and has betrayed the name of the designer:

Other people will be posting here too, by the way. That’s why the logo (by the great Batton Lash) says “with” instead of “by.” But those other people will most likely have real jobs, so they won’t be posting here as often as I will. Probably. Maybe. I don’t know. But the great thing about a blog is that it doesn’t have to be any one thing. And if there’s something you don’t feel like reading, check out that snazzy scrollbar over there.

So if you liked my old blog, you might like this blog. If you didn’t like my old blog and yet you’re reading this, I just have one question: Does Soros pay by the hour, the post, or the word? I’ve always wondered.

Well, this post is long enough already. They won’t all be this rambling and self-centered, I promise

The excuse that would seem to best suit the unfortunate Mr. Lash is that his lil’ buddy Jim teased the work out of him for free and didn’t tell him he’d be credited.

At least I hope that’s what happened.

Thank heaven Soros knows the importance of a well-funded art department! All that Blingeeing adds up.

Rumproast/Althouse mind meld!

Creepy.

After all the ugly, you owe us some pretty. We can haz Biscuit?

Of course the first thing Althouse noticed was the breast-wielders around the candid pic of the nation’s first black president.

We can haz Biscuit?

Let me see if I can get her to stand still enough for a pic. Trying to capture her with the mobile is next to impossible when she’s hyper.

Of course the first thing Althouse noticed was the breast-wielders around the candid pic of the nation’s first black president.

Huh?

I mean, I get the Althouse-breast reference, but is there some inside joke about Carlos Allen being our first black president that I’m not getting?

As you remember, the last time she made a fuss over other women’s racks was when Jessica Valenti failed to wear a Slankie for her photo op with Clinton aka the first black president. The guy in the new pic actually is black.

Meh. Failed over-elaborate joke on my part, that’s all. I really shouldn’t be hitting the wine this early in the day.

Too good a memory is your problem, Maryl. The rest of us had to put down our vodka stingers and try to cajole our aging brains into think mode, which is terribly ennervating.

@Strange: Perhaps Lash is indeed a Ditkoheaded Randy person. I like to give illustrators the benefit of the doubt, but the amateurishness of the artwork is unpleasantly inescapable. The pest-riddence-by-napkin method does seem most likely to explain the awfulness of the little sinking ship logo.

Meanwhile we can watch while the poor overexcited Treacher’s vessel takes on water. Tucker having not yet abandoned his eight-is-enough dry-look hairstyle and only recently having been persuaded out of wearing bow ties every blinking day, was anybody expecting anything from him less than an online Conservative Snuggie?

I’m gonna see if I can get Tucker to hire me - that would be a blast.

Then again, Lash may have been inspired not just by Steve Ditko’s art, but by his politics