HBO’s Best of the Local Blogs — 2/5/07

Stebbijo and Mari were willing to risk stray bullets to taste Sweet Herb’s potato salad at the Captain’s Wheel in Bayview here .

*”Lasean Driggs takes Holy Communion to my mother—-and to a lot of other folks who are housebound in rural settings’” writes Marianne Love /Slight Detour. “I truly believe that Lasean comes close to sainthood because she believes in her faith one hundred percent and lives it out doing good works for others.” Lasean has one other love — the Zags. Click here .

* Sara Anderson /F-Words weighs in about the new requirement in Texas that girls are to be vaccinated against cervical cancer from an STD virus here . And KaleJ /Unmuted Mumblings has thoughts about the STD virus vaccinations in Texas here

* Bayview Herb remembers his days as a cabby in which he transported a blonde from Beta’s bar to a Wolf Lodge Bay address that later became the scene of the Groene murders here .

* Dr. Jim /CastMD sez domestic violence and alcohol abuse happen on non-Super Bowl Sundays, too — and he provides a test so you can see if you get too worked up about the big game here .

* Bill McCrory /Whitecaps believes that serial meetings, in which elected officials are broken down into smaller groups to avoid Idaho’s Open Meeting Law, are a serious enough problem for the prosecutor to check out. But he’s not holding out hope here .

Meanwhile, Family Phil Jr. enjoyed the robot Super Bowl ad best here , Notes on a Napkin defends the cat here , OrangeFrog76 tries his hand at puzzle solving here , and Wading with the River Journal tells us what she didn’t do on vacation here .