Three fantastic writers …
Andisheh Nouraee — a columnist for Atlanta’s alternative weekly Creative Loafing (his collected writings for CL here). In one column he’s a man about town reported on the scene (and herd), and in the other column he does a Slate/Explainer take on questions about current events. Recent favorite quote: “… the United States and India also reached an agreement on sharing nuclear technology. The world’s largest democracy and the world’s fattest democracy are now nuclear BFF.”
Matt Taibbi — Politics in the style of Hunter S. Thompson. Take an ex-sportswriter and Russophile, add some tabs of acid and a gorilla suit, and sick him on the campaign trail.
Stephen Colbert — obviously just about everyone’s going to know about him already. His vicious satire is simply the best thing on television right now — I hope it lasts. I have a tedious rule against cable TV at home, but fortunately (!) I work for the beast itself (cable TV) so I actually can tape it at work. So in fact I have a VCR in my office whose sole job is to tape the Colbert Report so I can bring it home and watch it with the sweetie. Colbert recently was interviewed on the public radio show “City Arts & Lectures” and you can hear/download the hilarious hour here. Do it! Now!