You can take your politics seriously or you can poke, poke, poke fun at those in power.
Personally, I like a little bit of sarcasm mixed in with my daily political briefing over the web.
Wonkette is the perfect place to get that. Is it liberal? Yes. Is it crass? It can be, but probably for a good reason. What I love so much about the blog is it points out the obvious and ridiculous happenings of Washington politics and its society. Whether it is Wonkette’s coverage of obscure presidential candidates like Ron Paul or reports that Michael Chertoff is a blogger, nothing goes uncovered or un-ridiculed. Wonkette is essentially the Perez Hilton of D.C.
Now, if you like to take your politics a little more seriously, the New York Times has The Caucus, a blog set up specifically for the 2008 presidential election. Now it doesn’t offer up juicy tidbits such as Wonkette does, but it will give you some pretty straightforward coverage of big ’08 news. The fact that it can pull from the Times’ library of multimedia helps as well.
Whatever way you take your politics, each blog will give you a taste of important political news. OK, maybe Wonkette doesn’t always give important, you-need-to-know-this news, but it’s still funny as hell.
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