Best of the Local Blogs — 8/10/05

Sandpoint photographer Anita Aurit calls this Saturday shot of her cat, Buster, “Cool Cat on A Hot Day.” Anita is one of the fine photographers who contribute their work to the “Sandpoint In Pictures” feature of Chris Bessler’s Sandpoint Online .

* Family Phil feels he’s been bamboozled by the fear-mongering media re: the degree of threat that molesting monsters like Joseph Edward Duncan III pose to society here . And he’s running photo after photo of lake shots in his Tall Trees blog, so he can think cool this August here .

* CDADave has a word of caution re: all those scamming spammers who announce by e-mail that you’ve won one European lottery or another here . And he has his Wayback Machine focused on a CDA residential district here .

* Josef /Josef’s Public Blog sends along an Evergreen Freedom Foundation calculator that shows how much money the state of Washington is spending at this moment here .

*Dunno how Bre /To Blog Or Not To Blog is still standing after dealing with a bachelor party thrown by her hubby and friends here .

* Marianne Love /Slight Detour discusses the maiden 2005 voyage of the 1966, 16-foot Starcraft outboard that she bought for $1,800 here .