OK, so it may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but Surviving Grady weblog is one of my first stops each day in my spin around the blogsphere. Irreverent, strange, laugh-out-loud funny – SG is all these things and more. This post from the other day is one of the absolute best they’ve ever done. I just wonder where the heck these guys (who have jobs and families, BTW) find the time to come up with this stuff.

Another of my favorite blogs is Captains Quarters. I guess you might call it center-right politically, but Captain Ed also posts a lot of interesting stuff about pop culture and other items of interest as well – like this post from yesterday about the late, great Jack Benny. There are very few comedians that could ever match Benny’s sense of timing and deprecating humor. I remember a clip from Benny’s show in the mid-’60s with the Beach Boys where he and Bob Hope play a couple of “hip” surfers – absolutely hysterical and quite interesting watching these two comedic geniuses play off one another.

And finally, there is Power Line weblog. Similar to Captains Quarters – they often echo one another in both content and opinion – Power Line is also one of my must-stops on my daily Internet rounds. Scott Johnson’s post yesterday in celebration of George Washington’s birthday is an absolute must-read – especially for those who risk taking for granted Washington’s indispensible role in both the founding of our country and the establishment of the Presidency. It is a shame that a whole generation of our country’s youth will grow up knowing absolutely nothing about Washington and the critical role he played in our country’s establishment. There was a reason we used to celebrate Washington’s and Lincoln’s birthdays separately, and it is to our great loss they’ve all been rolled into that pathetic excuse for a holiday called “President’s Day”.