HBO Blogosphere — 1.6.2014

Laura Carmichael as Lady Edith is shown in a scene from season four of the Masterpiece TV series, “Downton Abbey.” The wildly popular series, which returned to the United States last night, remains a show about elegance, tradition and gentility, and the pressures of preserving them. On his Slice blog, Paul Turner claims there are two types of people today — those talking about “Downton Abbey’s two-hour premiere Sunday night and those who are not. Agree/disagree? (AP Photo/PBS/Masterpiece, Nick Briggs)

• Stunning Sunday /Slight Detour
• Janus years /Randy Stapilus, RP
• Baby, it’s cold outside /End Notes
• Zero tolerance for dissent /Fort Boise
• Day After: Zags drub Pacific /SportsLink
• Legal devil is in details /Dogwalk Musings
• It’s happy New Mexico statehood day /Slice
• Recent outdoors stories in the SR /Outdoors
• We’ve got a culture problem /Right Argument
• A nice start to the sports year /A Grip on Sports
• New year, new country, new ways /Eye on Shanghai
• Memories — the good & the poor /From A Simple Mind
• 9th LEGO-rama at library Jan. 18 /Coeur d’Alene Today
• Troubled shoot doomed ‘47 Ronin’ from the start /Dually Noted
• Resolved — to stop making writing resolutions /Writing North Idaho

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Question: I’m a ha-huge “Downton Abbey” fan. Is it wrong for a man to be that?