Inside Huckleberries (5/23/05)

*I hope you don’t think I’m tooting my own horn too much here, but I got this notice this p.m.: “It is my pleasure to inform you that you have won a prize in the National Society of Newspaper Columnists column writing competition. You’ve won a first, second or third — the exact prize will be announced at the awards banquet during the NSNC’s 2005 conference, June 25, in Grapevine, Texas” — Peter Rowe /Union Tribune.
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*Put your hands together for Amy Crooks of Post Falls (aka amyreba), who has officially dipped her toe into the blogging stream and now can be found on my blog roll under “That’s Life. Life Goes On” here . Welcome, Amy.
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*In conjuction with adding Amy to the blogroll, I deleted Henry Johnston’s My 2 Cents and Phil Corless’ The Old Goat Trail. Several other blogs are on the chopping block for lack of posting. I don’t like dead weight on my blogroll.
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*Two stunning blog numbers since I was picked up by Orbusmax Wednesday: 5550 pageviews on Wednesday and 5424 on Friday. Week total: 27479.
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* Bill McCrory / Whitecaps , our superb analyst, has a good reason for not weighing in on the Wolf Lodge Bay murders/child abductions: “The investigators are wisely not putting out much information, and I’m not going to speculate about what the investigators are doing and what importance they are attaching to whatever they’re getting. I’ll leave that to the radio talk show hosts.”
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*Lastly, I’m bothered by the personal attacks that have occurred in the last two days. It’s one thing to attack another person’s political ideas in the comments section of this blog. But I don’t appreciate the personal shots some of you guys — and it is guys — are taking at each. Keep the blows above the belt, or I’ll begin deleting comments and then posters. As Rodney King said: Why can’t you all just get along?