Best of the Local Blogs (5/6/05)

* Bob Salsbury /Unbearable Bobness of Being explains why he blogs, ending by asking tough questions (like, “Name which of the Spanish Inquisition Torture methods you find funniest”) here .

* Phil Corless /A Family Runs Through It provides a link to a history of Mother’s Day here .

* CDADave takes us on a coupla trips on his Coeur d’Alene Wayback Machine — to the old Potlatch Mill (current site of the resort golf course) here and to the DeArmond Mill here . (He also has a view or two about Spokane mayor’s scandal here .)

* Cis Gors /From A Simple Mind pens a swell piece about life’s rewards, including a few words on a Mother’s Day card from an adult child, here .

* SidVicious /Idle Idahoan, a North Idaho expatriate working in the nation’s capitol, explains why D.C. cops have a well-deserved bad rep-PU-tation here .