As Huckleberries moves toward HBO Blogfest '07, we have encountered some nasty exchanges and personal pot shots in the "comments" section. Dunno what's in the air or the water, but I must admit that I think the personal shots are so 2005. Spectators still enjoy…
Picture yourself in the morning drive-through at McDonalds. A pleasant voiced McD's employee takes your order. Once ordered, she asks, "Is that everything?" ... She then prefaces your grand total with an interesting disclaimer: "If you order is correct, your total is ..." IF?! What…
A woman stands amid Valentine's Day decorations in a shop in central Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday. Despite raging sectarian violence and harsh circumstances, some Iraqis are gearing up for Valentine's day tomorrow. You write the cutline/Samir Mizban, AP Photo.Top Cutlines1. "Well, we have the Valentine Day…
Until 4 p.m., Hudson Hamburgers is celebrating its 100th anniversary today by selling -- hamburgers for 10 cents; double burgers to 20 cents; soda, coffee and pie, for 5 cents. Colleague Erica Curless just returned from the Sherman Avenue mainstay to report the news. Everyone's…
Darren Horness of Howards Grove, (who provided this photo to the Associated Press), lays on the ice next to the 72-inch, 102-pound sturgeon he speared Sunday on Lake Winnebago in Wisconsin. The fish came up within 6 inches of the surface inside his ice shack.
For the rest of the column, click hereI moved from southern California to North Idaho when I was in high school. Looking back on my time there some four years later, I can’t help but wonder if the Aryan Nations leaving the area even made…
Santa Clara's Danny Pariseau (center) tosses the ball up for a basket past Gonzaga's Pierre Marie Altidor-Cespedes (right) and Matt Bouldin (right) during the second half of their college basketball victory at McCarthey Center in Spokane Monday. Pariseau, a Spokane native, discusses the thrill of…
I was thinking about that confrontation between Commissioner Rick Currie and activist Larry Spencer at the Association of Idaho Counties meeting last week -- you know, when Rick challenged Larry about being at a semi-private meeting only to learn that he was with House Speaker…
For the rest of Doug Clark's column today, click hereClark: I urge all of you to NOT believe the clever yet unfounded shroomers I have heard, such as ... *The remainder of the Gonzaga men's season is up in smoke.*The GU team will be changing…
A bill to require Idahoans to declare a party affiliation in primaries made it through its first hurdle Monday. Do you think voters should be required to declare a party affiliation in primaries? -- Idaho Statesman *Yes*No*No opinionDFO: Not only no, but hell no, as…
I spent many hours upclose and personal with the zero based intelligence Aryans when they chose to march year after year in downtown Cda. They were a bunch of misfits who could not even agree on what piece of crap vehicle they were all going…
For one of the few Februaries in my 31-plus years of marriage, I'm approaching St. Valentine's Day without fear and trembling. Usually, I suffer brain freeze when a day that requires a gift for my sweetheart rolls around. The kids help me survive Christmas by…
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.
