Best of the Local Blogs

*Huckleberries Hound enjoyed Bearable Bob’s “An Imaginery Conversation with ‘My Woman’” today, but we’re going with: “How to taunt a neoconservative gloating over recent developments in the Middle East and now claiming democracy is a wildfire and we were right all along” here .

*To spank or not to spank … that’s the subject of CDADave’s latest rant here .

*With Dan Rather heading toward pasture, Marianne Love /Slight Detour shares thoughts of Dallas, Walter Cronkite and later years here .

* Bill McCrory /Whitecaps has unsettling news about guns and terrorists on watchlists here .

* Sam Taylor /Vandal Sense discusses the prospect of a UI campus pub on his new blog here .