HBO’s Best of the Friends Blogs — 10/4/07

Kerri Thoreson/OnLocation North Idaho

At the Kootenai County Courthouse clerks work on Saturdays to accommodate couples in love, writes Kerri Thoreson/OnLocation North Idaho. Coeur d’Alene is one of the most popular wedding destinations in the Northwest, as much for North Idaho’s four-season honeymoon scenic beauty as for the simplicity of getting a marriage license. In Idaho, couples 18 and over need no witnesses or blood tests and there’s no waiting period.

*Raymond Pert/ Kellogg Bloggin’ learned long ago that a corduroy couch bought on time isn’t that permanent when someone wants out of a marriage here .

*Continuing on the thread started at HBO Wednesday, Idawa/ Word Forge wonders how anyone can say our health-care system is OK when an IV bag of saline and 8 hours equals a $2,000 bill here .

* The Unbearable Bobness of Being tells of a seance involving a group of Republican officials who are trying to figure out which one of the current crop of GOPrez wannabes is the real Reagan Republican here .

*Toadman/ Synaptic Disunion realizes that it’s hard to explain to your son who’s upset by his dental problems and other maladies that life isn’t always fair here .

*JBelle/ The ‘Kan EWA Notes has fully recovered from her trip to Russia and already planning for a Vietnam bike ride in November here .

HBO Blog Numbers (for Wednesday, Oct. 4): 8152 page-views and 4512 unique views.

Meanwhile, Idaho Escapee is looking at before and after photos here ; Inland Empire Girl takes a field trip to remember here ; Vandal Sense discovers again that “snow” in western Washington means heavier rain here .