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Wild Card/Thursday — 10.21.10

Our Palouse regular Moscow Minidoka is suffering an overdose of dirty politics this fall and wishing that the silly season was over. I enjoy this time of the year when nerves are raw and the trolls are out in force. In less than two weeks, the yard signs will come down, the successful pols will run sugar sweet ads thanking voters for their support, and the trolls will crawl back under their rocks. Then, things will be quiet for a coupla months before the Idaho Legislature begins again -- and we will express outrage at the crazier things that are politicians conjure. All fun. Now, for your Wild Card ...



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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