As I parked my car in the office lot today, the guy on the radio said that an expert sez that January 22 is the most depressing day of the year. Seems the weather, unpaid Christmas bills, failure to keep New Year's resolutions and other…
This just in from Taryn. The drowning victim is a black male in his 60s from Coeur d'Alene.
Orange TV/Making Flippy Floppy labeled this photo: "A Picture of Q Taking A Picture of Me Taking a Picture of Q." Good stuff. Patrick also provided a follow-up on that fund-raiser at Mic-and-Macs for seriously injured Kim Hagen here.*Family Phil/A Family Runs Through It takes…
Benito, a 5-year-old Chihuahua, drinks beer from a bottle in the southern town of Hulst, Netherlands Sunday. Terrie Berenden, a pet shop owner in the town of Zelhem created a non-alcoholic beer for her Weimaraner dog made from beef extract and malt, and consigned a…
I've been thinking about that AP story that focuses on the difficult pronunciation of Idaho House Minority Leader Wendy Jaquet's last name. (BTW, it's JAY-quit). Which prominent people in your neck of the woods have the hardest names to pronounce?
Issue: In homogenous Idaho Legislature, names still get butchered: House Miniority Leader Jaquet tired of having surname mispronounced/John Miller, Associated Press Neil Colwell, Avista Corp. lobbyist: If you can't pronounce somebody's name, how far do you think you are going to get in a conversation…
... Or the total number of corrections published by the SR in 2006, or 30 more corrections were published in 2006 than 2005, or Managing Editor Gary Graham ain't happy hereIf it's January, it must be time to report back to our readers about our…
Senior Ice Dancers Morgan Matthews and Maxim Zavozin work on their program Sunday for the US Figure Skating Championships at the Spokane Arena here/Dan Pelle, Spokesman-Review.Eye On Boise: Boise State prez predicts Boise will grow to 1 million residents by 2030 here.1. Beginning Tuesday, all…
Full post here (third item)It may take a total format and name change for Entercom’s 107.9 - “The End” to recover from a shock jock contest gone wrong. Licensed to Sacramento as KDND, the station’s morning show invited listeners to “Hold your wee for a…
"For those of you who don't have a blog yet, think of one as a large yellow Labrador: friendly, fun, not all that bright, but constantly demanding your attention."David Carr/New York TimesHat Tip/Family Phil
Full post hereLaird Stone, head of the Idaho State Board of Education, told legislative budget writers just now, “We have too few students going on to higher education, and too many of them are leaving the state. In fact, Idaho’s best export at this time…
This & That: On her Red State Rebel blog, Julie Fanselow tells of a close encounter with Gov. Butch Otter at Boise's Downtown Y. She was at the snack bar when Butch walked by. Julie thought it was "cool" that our libertarian governor works out…
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.
