Wild Card -- Thursday (4/7/05)
Ladies and (the one or two Huckleberries Online blog) gentlemen, start your engines ...
THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2005
Headlines @ Closin' Time (4/7/05)
*Texas high-school football coach shot: Cops: Dad of player wounded son's teacher, fled, now in custody/Associated Press -- In Texas, football is bigger than religion. All it takes is a crackpot high school gridiron worshipper, and someone gets hurt.*Teen girls held in suicide bomb plot:…
Separated at Birth?
OK, this one's for Toadman because he seems a bit down today, trying to harmonize the polarization of the Left and the Right. And, besides, he did such a dyne-oh!-mite job snapping and reporting Colorado prof Ward Churchill's appearance on campus earlier this week. Toadman…
Inside Huckleberries
4 p.m. Got the full court report in the sentencing of Brownie Boy earlier this week. I'll blog it tomorrow.1:47 p.m. I've been thinking about changing the wording under "About this blog" to the left. It's no longer accurate. How about: "Dave Oliveria is a…
Best of the Northwest (4/7/05)
Stephen Jordan (above, right), EWU prez for the past 7 years, has announced his resignation to become prez at Metropolitan State College of Denver, Colo., here. Recently, Jordan found himself in the middle of a controversy when he disinvited wacky Colorado prof Ward Churchill to…
Question of the Day (4/7/05)
Issue: Iraq's presidential council sworn in: Country moving toward 1st freely elected government in 50 years/Associated Press DFO: It ain't over, yet, but it does look like Iraq has reached the Tipping Point -- and its people are embracing democracy. BTW, I hear they found…
Home Again Jiggety Jig
The days are warm and sunnyAs "solons" come home to their honeysThey'll spend their daysThinking of new waysThat they can spend our money.CDADave
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.