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HBO’s Best of the Friends’ Blogs — 11/29/07


Chris Peterson/Glacier Geographics, Muse You Can Use
Chris Peterson/Glacier Geographics explains how baby goats are made here.

*Kevin Richert correctly points out that kayakers and canoeists shouldn't be barred from attending a meeting to discuss charging them for using Idaho waterways, another of Gov. Butch Otter's closed meetings, here.

*Put your hands together for Bubblehead/The Stupid Shall Be Punished, Meridian's most read blogger, who got out of him PJ's and decided to cover a news story re: the opening of an I-84 overpass here.

*Idaho Escapee commemorates the sixth anniversary of the death of George Harrison, the "economy-class Beatle," here.

*For Toadman/Synaptic Disunion, winter means: "Sorel boots battle footsy elements while L.L.Bean coats battle upper body temps. Snow piles up. Deep." Click here.

*In case you were wondering what happened to former KootCo resident Norm Semanko after he lost his congressional bid to Bill Sali ... Fort Boise found him doing what he does best here.

*Despite a bad seeding to begin the NCAA women's soccer tournament, PDX Pup's alma mater, University of Portland, has been dominant as it prepares to face No. 1 UCLA Friday here.

HBO Blog Numbers (for Wednesday, Nov. 28): 8777 page-views and 5173 unique views.

Meanwhile, Randy Stapilus enjoys his week in BlogNetNews spotlight here; Adam's Blog takes up the debate: "Merry Christmas" or "Happy Holidays" here; MountainGoat Report provides her regular Bill Sali vote update here; IdaBlue proffers an unusual use for duct tape here; Inland Empire Girl discovers the roads are too slick to take many photos here; and Blogspotter singles out the "only female, gay, Jewish, blogging taxi driver in New York" here.



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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.