# please recommend some good blogs! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 16, 2003, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-some-good-blogs/149042 "2003-01-16T19:49:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![akohl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@akohl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akohl)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-some-good-blogs/149042/1 "2003-01-16T19:49:41Z")
I’m thinking of setting up a weblog for myself and would like to see some good examples first. I also like the idea of reading some good ones regardless of my own weblog project. Could you people reccommend your favourite weblogs, especially those that feature good indexes of quality weblogs so that I don’t have to wade through junk to find the good ones. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![pluralgravity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2bfe46/32.png) [@pluralgravity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluralgravity)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-some-good-blogs/149042/2 "2003-01-16T21:27:40Z")
I thought there would be a lot of replies to this post. Clicking on favorites/blogs on my screen here I find 22 sites that I go to regularly. The one I always visit first is at [http://denbest.nu/](http://denbest.nu/) by Stephen Denbest. It is sometimes challenging, often surprising and always superbly well written. Good luck with your blog, visit Denbest to see how good a blog can be ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-some-good-blogs/149042/3 "2003-01-16T22:47:19Z")
Are you looking for a personal blog or commentary? What subjects, political persuasion, styles are you interested in? [www.instapundit.com](http://www.instapundit.com) is one of the best IMHO and he links to a raft of other good blogs (including the aforementioned www.denbeste.nu - note the corrected URL). ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-some-good-blogs/149042/4 "2003-01-17T00:16:14Z")
This is a solicitation for opinions, so I’ll move it to IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Geoduck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c37758/32.png) [@Geoduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geoduck)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-some-good-blogs/149042/5 "2003-01-17T05:38:43Z")
[Andrewsullivan.com](http://Andrewsullivan.com) is very popular–neoconservative pro-gay politics; lileks.com- is a popular Minn. newspaper columnist and cultural history buff; also sorta neocon, been doing this for 5 years and has an extensive site. Regardless of one’s politics, these sites are well done. ---
**Author:** ![akohl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@akohl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akohl)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-some-good-blogs/149042/6 "2003-01-17T07:59:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by rowrrbazzle \* > \*\*Are you looking for a personal blog or commentary? What subjects, political persuasion, styles are you interested in? \*\* I’m interested in commentary on politics, education, culture, sceince. Sort of a variety of topics written with lots of academic and practical expertise, and yet written so that laymen like myself can understand them. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-some-good-blogs/149042/7 "2003-01-17T15:16:29Z")
ditto lileks.com- though not a blog in the strictest sense, it is what a blog can become. [http://www.joshclaybourne.com](http://www.joshclaybourne.com) is a good example of a religious blog. The kid’s a Hoosier college student with ambitions of being Wm. F. Buckley, Jr., Jr… [http://www.worldwiderant.com](http://www.worldwiderant.com) is run by a friendly funny and very intelligent atheist pundit and is mainly about politics, religion, and hooters. [http://www.lotsofco.org](http://www.lotsofco.org) is run by a very intelligent though strangely vapid teacher in Alabama and is dedicated to fashion trends and above all else TV. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-some-good-blogs/149042/8 "2003-01-17T15:21:27Z")
correct spelling: [joshclaybourn.com](http://joshclaybourn.com) ---
**Author:** ![super\_head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@super\_head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/super_head)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-some-good-blogs/149042/9 "2003-01-17T15:35:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sampiro \* > [http://www.worldwiderant.com](http://www.worldwiderant.com) is run by a friendly funny and very intelligent atheist pundit and is mainly about politics, religion, and hooters. You’re too kind. Glad you like it. Now, back to the hooters! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![super\_head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@super\_head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/super_head)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-some-good-blogs/149042/10 "2003-01-17T15:36:54Z")
Wait, I know you - don’t I? (slaps forehead) Doh! ---
**Author:** ![akohl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@akohl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akohl)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-some-good-blogs/149042/11 "2003-01-25T18:29:44Z")
Thanks for your leads. I needed one good blog for one of my browsers 5 or six starting pages (Yes I’m an Opoera user) I settled on [http://www.scrappleface.com/](http://www.scrappleface.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-some-good-blogs/149042/12 "2003-01-26T08:20:24Z")
[www.happyfunpundit.com](http://www.happyfunpundit.com) (-: