Hot Potatoes Log

5:23 p.m. Khris Bershers , my favorite Local Conservative Girl Makes Good Back In D.C., checked in from her PR job with the Heritage Foundation think tank to say fellow thinkers were blown away by my blog ethics item today here. Writes Khris: “Loved your posting today on blog “ethics” when it comes to blogger plagiarism. We were having a similar debate in my office today! I forwarded your posting around and one guy responded with “a blogger who follows the rules? Where’s he from?” You’re now known as That Idaho Blogger Guy.” Hot Dang!

4:55 p.m. We’ve just been informed by CPD spokesperson Christie Wood (pictured) that her department is going to make it tougher for us to report the news — more fallout from our disclosure of the names of the police officers involved in the fatal Hayden shootout. So, when you see all those “no comments” popping up in our police stories, you can call Christie or Police Chief Wendy Carpenter for the rest of the story. Yo, Christie, does this new approach apply to your trustee roles at North Idaho College trustee and the Coeur d’Alene School District, too?

1:01 p.m. With all the hoopla caused by Sheriff Rocky Watson’s grandstand play re: the S-R’s release of the officers’ names yesterday, I think it’s a good idea to rerun Bill McCrory’s superb Whitecaps blog item from Dec. 31 that asks a series of tough questions about the Hayden shootout here .

9:32 a.m. Running so far behind today that I don’t think I’ll be able to make it over to Commish Dick Panabaker’s farewell roast at the courthouse, which is going on until 11. Dick’s a good man (even though I thought he goofed big time on that BNSF refueling depot vote). I wish him well.

9:26 a.m. Dick had a dietician from KMC on his show this morning who said you shouldn’t eat meat at a meal that’s bigger than a woman’s hand and thicker than your finger. Wonder what the boys and girls at Wolf Lodge Inn would think of that?

9:21 a.m. So, there I was this morning, gum deep in a regular dental cleaning appointment, and KVNI’s Dick Haugen is talking about a tooth implant he had New Year’s Eve Day. (I was wearing a Walkman.) Dick said he couldn’t talk for days, and his neighbors appreciated that. A blogger never has that problem. Onward.