Best of the Local Blogs — 8/11/05

Chris Bessler, owner of Sandpoint Online , snapped this little beauty, “Bejeweled Lupine Plant, this spring — one of the many excellent photographs offered by his Sandpoint In Pictures feature. Our Cis Gors even has a photo in the lineup.

If we could meet aliens and tell them three things they needed to know to make it on this crazy planet called earth, I’d certainly think that one of the three should be a suggestion to never buy a used car from a guy who wears white ankle socks with leather loafers — Bearable Bob /Random Shallow Thoughts.

* Dogwalk Musings provides 40-years-worth-of-experience insight into the trouble local nonprofit organizations, such as the local human rights center, have in keeping paid execs here Terrific post.

* Bill McCrory /Whitecaps, the much-respected local blogger/analyst, brings back to mind a murder-suicide involving the Tacoma police chief two years ago that’s still having repercussions here .

* Cis Gors /From A Simple Mind sees People With Road Rage Driving All Around — shudder — here .

* Marianne Love /Slight Detour provides a photo of brother/hang glider Jim Tibbs, who draws those neat cartoons that are published by her and HBO — and her mother, Virginia Tibbs, who turns 84 tomorrow, here .

* Sam Taylor /Vandal Sense received some great news on the Mom front but the galpal situation continues to deteriorate as he prepares for his senior year at UI here .