Wild Card/Thursday — 1.5.12

Been reading and enjoying Dave Boling’s book, “Guernica,” about the 1937 brutal attack by German warplanes on the defenseless Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish civil war. Terrific first book by the Tacoma News-Tribune sports writer. Oldtimers around here know that Boling cut his journalistic teeth at the Coeur d’Alene Press before moving on to the Lewiston Tribune and later to The Spokesman-Review. Talented sportswriter. Talented novelist. I have one of the few copies of his book checked out from the county library system. I’ll be done with it in a day or two. You should checked it out. Now for today’s Wild Card …