Ready or not, we've moved past the North Idaho Fair & Bonner County Fair. Which means that the fall campaigns for county, legislative, statewide, & congressional offices are officially upon us. If you didn't realize that, you weren't paying attention to the political ads last week from Spokane television stations. I flinched the first time I heard an attack ad in the Murray-Rossi campaign. Unfortunately, we're also subject to Washington's mudslinging as a result of our proximity to the Washington state line. Sigh. While I go in search of covering for protection from mud splatter, I'll play this Wild Card ...