HBO’s Best of the Local Blogs — 10/5/06

This squirrel (photo at Utah State campus provided by the Associated Press) may be in better shape, physically and mentally, to face the winter than CDADave here .

1. Mommy Dearest /BrodH20 is returning to her roots, after spending too many weekends house-cleaning. Yep, she’s hired her mother to do it for her here .

2. WAC officials admitted they made a mistake that helped Idaho score a touchdown in their win over Utah State, according to Jim Meehan /Idaho Vandals, here .

3. OrangeTV /Making Flippy Floppy reviews three very bad, but addictive TV shows, here , and provides some funny YouTube links, including a dramatization of a conversation between U.S. Rep. Mark Foley and a congressional page here .

4. Marianne Love /Slight Detour admits she doesn’t always know what she’s doing, but she enjoys fall farming nevertheless here .

5. Amy Crooks /That’s Life. Life Goes On provides an example re: why parents get white hair here .

“Sometimes political scandals have legs and sometimes political scandals have low slung Kandy Apple Red 69 Corvettes with overhorsepowered v-8s and big fat rear tires and pure ethyl gasoline surging through huge thirsty carburetors. That would be the Mark Foley (R-Fl) scandal. Hastert’s office was warned, indeed implored, THREE YEARS ago to stop this pervert from trying to bag teenage page boys” — Bob. More here .

Meanwhile, Family Phil’s kids go to bed hungry here , Bayview Herb brags on the book his brother, Stan, wrote here , ErinG disses her Old Man, Granati , for turning 30 here , Trish confesses her age here , and Stebbijo challenges you to test your skills with “The Maze” here .