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FRIDAY, OCT. 1, 2004

Over & Out

Well, folks, I had a blast today. The new format has a coupla bugs on my end. But I hope you aren't having trouble with it on your end. Again, the new format allows me to blog from home. Dunno how that's going to sit…

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More Rankin

My spies tell me that Ron Rankin's family hopes the bypass surgery this week will enable him to bounce back from that massive heart attack in January. He hasn't been the same since. The Ronfather, however, was up to his old tricks last night when…

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World Net Daily Headlines

As I said, I'm in an experimental mode again re: this blog. (It's strange to call it Hot Potatoes after calling it No Holds Barred since February.) I should have called it HP from the first even though I had a print column of the…

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Best of the Northwest

In case you missed my BOTNW comment yesterday: "The state Department of Lands and the U.S. Corps of Engineers each deserve a steaming Hot Potato for withholding public info re: HagaWorld's plans to dredge the Blackwell Island channel. The local bureaucRATs wouldn't provide a conceptual…

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TGIF Quick Fix 6

I hate to admit it, but (drum roll, puh-LEEZ) Flipflop won the debate last night ... by not Flipflopping. He was on message. And Dubya seemed to keep pounding the wrong war, wrong place, wrong time theme too much. And missed golden opportunities to hold…

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Archives

You can find my posts from yesterday under "Posts before October 2004." I'm going to bring a coupla of them forward today, so you can read what I was ramblin' about before the hard drive exploded. BTW, a big-time thanx to Ken Sands, Ryan Pitts…

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Hot Potatoes Redux

If you're wondering what happened to No Holds Barred yesterday, I have answers. Sorta. The hard drive at Blog Central crashed. So, the blogmeister had to rebuild the thing. Which provided an opportunity to change a thing or two -- like the name. It's now…

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Huckleberries Online

D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.