Critics of the parents who let their kids take an arctic-like dive in the Polar Bear Plunge: Sorry, but you're all wet. We take mild issue with those critics, mild because we know they mean well. These are the same critics who tend to complain when the newspaper publishes a photo of a teenager doing a flip into the lake or a tyke on a bike sans helmet. With all the right intentions, they wrongly meddle in the responsibilities of others. Bless them. What we take major issue with is any critic who calls out the Sorensen Magnet School teacher who offered "points" to any student who engaged in the annual New Year's Day plunge into frigid Lake Coeur d'Alene. That's sticking one's protruding schnoz where it has no right to be stuck/CDA Press Editorial Board. More here.

Question: What kind of busy bodies bug you most?