I first discovered The Daily Beast, as did many others, with Christopher Buckley’s endorsement of Barack Obama.  Days later, Buckley has been cast out of the pages of the magazine his father founded, and is now writing exclusively for The Daily Beast.

The Beast is apparently a project from Tina Brown, the former iconoclastic editor of The New Yorker, and it takes a refreshingly trashy, yet highbrow approach.  It’s comparable in some ways to Salon in the days before the 2004 election when Salon held a variety of viewpoints and hadn’t allowed itself to be subsumed by the greater blogosphere.  Now Salon is a dull shadow of itself, really just a lesser voice in the liberal blogosphere, and the Daily Beast is like the old Salon reborn.  

Definitely worth a read.