HBO’s Best of the Local Blogs — 4/28/06

CDADave is back to his old tricks of making us laugh with his parodies here .

* Mari Meehan /Dogwalk Musings believes the Bush’s administration’s new PR guy has the perfect name for the job, Tony Snow, here .

*On the nicest day of the year, Sam Taylor /Vandal Sense finds out about the high cost of fighting HIV and AIDS here .

* Bre /To Blog Or Not To Blog is back with us, with a post about an outing to Skate Plaza that has a touching ending here .

*It’s a little late in the day to be pointing this out, but … today is Arbor Day, and Marianne Love /Slight Detour encourages everyone to go out and hug a tree here .

* Patrick /Making Flippy Floppy reviewed the Sunset Grill in the Sunset Mall more than a month ago, but I forgot to post a link until now here .

Meanwhile, Betsy reports on an un-PC comment made by congressional wannabe Robert Vasquez at the Mica Grange Hall here , Bob rants for those who’ve missed his political observations here , and Herb mourns a pet turkey named Rufus here .