HBO’s Best of the Friends’ Blogs — 11/29/07

Chris Peterson/Glacier Geographics, Muse You Can Use
Chris Peterson/Glacier Geographics explains how baby goats are made here .

* Kevin Richert correctly points out that kayakers and canoeists shouldn’t be barred from attending a meeting to discuss charging them for using Idaho waterways, another of Gov. Butch Otter’s closed meetings, here .

*Put your hands together for Bubblehead/ The Stupid Shall Be Punished , Meridian’s most read blogger, who got out of him PJ’s and decided to cover a news story re: the opening of an I-84 overpass here .

* Idaho Escapee commemorates the sixth anniversary of the death of George Harrison, the “economy-class Beatle,” here .

*For Toadman/ Synaptic Disunion , winter means: “Sorel boots battle footsy elements while L.L.Bean coats battle upper body temps. Snow piles up. Deep.” Click here .

*In case you were wondering what happened to former KootCo resident Norm Semanko after he lost his congressional bid to Bill Sali … Fort Boise found him doing what he does best here .

*Despite a bad seeding to begin the NCAA women’s soccer tournament, PDX Pup’s alma mater, University of Portland, has been dominant as it prepares to face No. 1 UCLA Friday here .

HBO Blog Numbers (for Wednesday, Nov. 28): 8777 page-views and 5173 unique views.

Meanwhile, Randy Stapilus enjoys his week in BlogNetNews spotlight here ; Adam’s Blog takes up the debate: “Merry Christmas” or “Happy Holidays” here ; MountainGoat Report provides her regular Bill Sali vote update here ; IdaBlue proffers an unusual use for duct tape here ; Inland Empire Girl discovers the roads are too slick to take many photos here ; and Blogspotter singles out the “only female, gay, Jewish, blogging taxi driver in New York” here .