5:41 p.m. My day's almost done, so I'll let you in on a little secret. Tomorrow, I'll celebrate the first anniversary of this blog. A year ago, I began No Holds Barred/Hot Potatoes/Huckleberries Online with fear and tremblin'. Sometimes, the only thing that kept me going was my commitment to last a year. This isn't as easy as it looks. But I'm pleasantly surprised at what the blog has become, and what it has done to me. More about this tomorrow.

4:14 p.m. You can find a conservative's take on movies at a relatively new blog site, named Veritas, here.

4:04 p.m. Jim Miller on Politics blog (a conservative from eastern Washington who appears on Stefan Sharkansky's superb Sound Politics) has added Huckleberries Online to his Northwest blogroll here. Cool. Also, he provides an interesting view of why the American media have ignored CNN exec Eason Jordan's fall from grace here.

11:24 a.m. On her blog today, Michelle Malkin discusses a move by The Tulsa World to strong-arm Oklahoma blogger Michael Bates from using any of its material or linking to the paper's site here. Which proves the World doesn't know much about the "fair use" policy -- and has very thin skin. If you're a blogger, you might want to read the rules of copyright engagement from the Nerf-Coated World blog here. (Thanks -- to Kristin Hoppe/Not So Fast for passing that along.)

10:46 a.m. Huckleberries hears that ... Athol folks are up in arms about CDA Press columnist Marty Fortier's cracks about their town here.

---

---