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His name is Joe Fobitz, really.

All this blathering about Hoopfest cheating is wearing us out. Hoopfest losers whine shamelessly about the other team’s ringers; they’re either too tall (sniff!) or too young (sniff!), and they’re always too good (honk!). Get over it losers! In other Hoopfest news, the Hot Seat team (The Hatchets) has added Joe Fobitz to its team this year. Fobitz is the first administrative assistant to the second associate vice president of newspaper marketing for our accounts in Turkey Creek, Idaho. He’s never played the game, but we don’t care. We’re just in it for the fun.

A glimpse of the future

Instead of letting the nomination of Dr. Henry Foster win or lose on his merits, Bob Dole and Phil Gramm raced to see who could jump deeper into the gutter. Dole won. Presidential wannabe Pat Buchanan stood on the sidelines calling both Gramm and Dole “leap-year conservatives” and “biggovernment Republicans.” Which gives us all something to look forward to, the Republican primary. A legal pit bull dogfight. The damage these guys do to each other will be fabulous … er, substantial. It could make the public think they all are dirtbags. Their own mean-spirited tactics may be the best thing Clinton has going for him.

County Democrats do the right thing, better late than never

It took a while but Spokane County Democrats have apologized for the racial slur against the owners of the Davenport Hotel. We roasted them in this column many times over that incident and their propensity to make a bad situation worse. But now we have to say they’ve done the right thing. , DataTimes ILLUSTRATION: Three Photos

MEMO: The Hot Seat is an irreverent look at controversial issues in the news. The views expressed are those of the writer, today’s Hot Seat was written by Scott Sines