What to read when you're not reading SWNID

So, my friends ask me, where do you find all this stuff that you seem to know? How is it that you are SWNID on such a range of topics? After all, we expect you to know biblical stuff, since you're a NT professor, and maybe a few things about higher education. But where are the headwaters of this mighty river of information on politics, world affairs, and such?

At the risk of making SWNID obsolete in its second post, I share with you my habitual reads.

1. The News Forum posted by Lucianne Goldberg at www.lucianne.com is absolutely the first thing to check every morning when logging onto the web. Lucianne's devoted readers clue her in on the most interesting news and opinion sites, and she highlights, with witty teasers, the best of the best. You'll know what all the conservative bloggers and radio hosts will discuss after scanning LG's "must reads," and you'll be the pundit of the water cooler if you pick one a day to digest carefully.
2. "Opinion Journal: Best of the Web Today," published every weekday afternoon by James Taranto, also benefits from input from readers, but even more from its editor's keen analysis and sharp wit. If I've been in the habit of sending you links, most of them have come from this. Find it at www.opinionjournal.com/best.
3. RealClear Politics rivals these first two for timely links to important news and opinion. It's also a great source for polling information during elections. John McIntyre and Tom Bevan gather all the good stuff in the morning and update it in the evening. Find it at www.realclearpolitics.com.
4. My one print subscription to a general-interest publication is The Atlantic Montly. I know of nothing that rivals it for consistently interesting writing about important topics and reviews of important books. Once upon a time the New Yorker did this, but then the evil Tina Brown appeared and turned it into the love child of Vogue and the New Republic. There's a web site, but spend the outrageously low subscription price and get the actual magazine on dead trees.
5. Is there a funnier man alive today than P. J. O'Rourke? Every book he writes, I read. You should too, if you are interested in politics--or cars, for that matter--and like to laugh. Start with Parliament of Whores if you're new to his world. My favorite P.J.-ism (from The CEO of the Sofa, commenting on rapper Eminem): "How did God, with all his tornadoes, happen to miss this one trailer park?"