Survey: What Blogs Do You (Really) Read?

Walking through Barnes & Noble today, one of the things that most struck me was how so many non-fiction books are published to confirm the sentiments of the people who buy them.  Obviously, people buying Ann Coulter or Frank Rich’s books are already aware that they will pretty much agree with the author before they read word one.  Other books, such as “What’s The Matter With California” are obviously aimed at confirming the views of the only people who would pick up such a tome in the first place.

Which leads me to wonder about what blogs we honestly read, on a weekly basis.  Not the ones we admire and will check on sometimes, but the ones we open almost every day, and read nearly every post from.  My list is below the fold.

Not including this site or dKos, these are my weekly reads:

Hit and Run – the blog of Reason Magazine

Radley Balko’s The Agitator, which is on our blogroll and is the best blog for my money online

Andrew Sullivan – sometimes awful, but strangely compelling.  I think it is largely because he is a writer, and the quality of writing shines through.

Unqualified Offerings – it is Jim Henley’s blog, and he’s great, but the gem here is co-blogger Thoreau

Marginal Revolution and Cafe Hayek – both blogs are from members of the George Mason Economics department, and are both largely to the right of me.  Yet both are filled with fascinating insights and information, even when I disagree.  Also, great food reviews.

Megan McArdle – what I love most about Megan is that she is willing to ask “dumb” questions and seek their answers, a thing most of us are too cowardly to do.  Also often disagreed with, but provocative.  And no one is as good, IMHO, at taking Ezra Klein down a notch.

Clearly, there is some bias in what I read.  Strangely, nearly all my weekly reads are to my political right, which is something I find curious (although this site and DK are much further to my left).  How about you?

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  1. Discuss…

  2. …can someone demote?

  3. a possible addition to the sidebar:

    SistersTalk

    Unique perspectives from a unique person.

    Another favorite is:

    MoJo Blog

    The original modern day progressives, they deserve the traffic.

  4. I open up in tabs every day with my blogs.

    DailyKos

    TPM

    SwingStateProject

    Hotline on Call

    MyDD

    Huffington Post

    Political Wire

    Senate 2008 Guru

    OpenLeft

    One Million Strong

    Docudharma

    I also have a Minnesota blogs file with

    Minnesota Monitor

    MinnPost

    MNpublius

    MN Campaign Report

    On my Mac I have a ton of others. I don’t remember them all but I probably visit them at least every other day. I am not on that computer but here is a stab

    The Nation

    Think Progress

    The Atlantic (The link is to Matt but I read Andrew and Mark too.)

    TAPPED

    AmericaBlog

    FireDogLake

    I don’t have any cons. But I can’t stand most of them. Still I’m going to make a new Conservatives section to check daily.

    Good post.

  5. Well, Digby, Booman, Greenwald.

    Those are the only ones other than here and DKos I look at every day.

  6. I look at Huffington, Think Progress, Docudharma, Orange, Talkleft, Firedoglake, Rude Pundit.

    I read on a pretty regular basis LitBlogs that are collected in the blogroll on the right of thispage.  This is a pretty good list, and I have another 12-15 more I’ll try to add this week.  Also, have to fix some of the links.  Best part of these is that they’re all different and you can get lost in them for hours and then wonder where the time went.

  7. I read Digby, everybody reports on Digby so if I don’t make it by it shows up here or at Orange.  I read Talkleft, probably the best blog out there for challenging me to “really” think cuz all the lawyers around there like to challenge.  I too read Andrew Sullivan because sometimes he says really good stuff when he is the Gemini personality that I like.  I also read

    Army of Dude

    Iraqi Bloggers Central

  8. but have given up on that place.

    I usually read dKos, glance at pff, and occasionally comment here.

    But Glen Greenwald is, imo, perhaps the best blogger out there.  

    • plf515 on December 23, 2007 at 20:51

    I read and post a lot at DailyKos

    besides that

    swing state project

    ]  only a small portion of the stuff is of interest to me, but when it is, it’s great

    Statistical modeling, causal inference and social science  If you think I’m geeky…. well….  A great site.  Most of the posts are interesting to me.

  9. I’m just starting to use RSS seriously, so my list is fairly short. I’ve excluded straight news.

    I know what you mean about Sullivan, but he’s too much of a liar and a racist for me to tolerate anymore.

    Herewith:

    Altercation, by Eric Alterman

    Anericablog

    Pam’s House Blend

    Daily Kos

    Daring Fireball (Apple cultism. . .)

    Eschaton

    Ezra Klein

    MyDD

    Paul Krugman’s blog

    Swing State Project

    TalkLeft

    The Board (NYT Editorial)

    The Left Coaster

    • RiaD on December 24, 2007 at 12:06

    ver rarely will go to orange to rec someone from here.

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