Wild Card/Tuesday — 4.24.12

Coeur d’Alene Held Hostage, Day 21: The Souza-Sims-Culbreth-Orzell Recallers wouldn’t have enjoyed that spontaneous standing ovation from 400-plus people given to Mayor Sandi Bloem when she was introduced at the 15th annual Human Rights Banquet Monday night. At it lasted for awhile. ‘Twas nice to spend 3-plus hours with people of goodwill like Tony Stewart, Norm Gissel and Marshall Mend — and listening to a message of hope from guest speaker Jianli Yang, a Chinese dissident imprisoned for five years for his stand. Now for your Wild Card …