Best of the Northwest
So, did you hear the one about a coupla skinny dippers who were enjoying a swim at 9:30 last night next to Duane Hagadone's (pictured) world HQ on the North Shore? Seems they didn't care where they were swimming. Or who was looking. They were cavorting under a lamp post, too. I'm surprised the Hagadroid security guards didn't catch them. Remember that old cop drama that ended with the statement: "There's a million stories in this naked city." Well, we don't have a million stories. But we occasionally get nekkid.
1. Political cartoonist Eric Devericks/Seattle Times nails how I feel -- and probably how you feel -- about the rhetoric of the current prez/congress/local campaigns here.
2. I hate to do this to you long-suffering UI Vandal fans, but the Boise State Broncos are putting Idaho on the football map. USA Today visited BSU recently to write up the Blue Carpet Wonders who soon might be playing in a major bowl game around New Year's Day 2005 here.
3. Meanwhile, the Vandals are ready to put the worst behind them here.
4. "Ignoring a warning to abort the flight, a test pilot took a stubby-looking rocket plane on a corkscrewing, white-knuckle ride past the edge of the atmosphere Wednesday, completing the first stage of a quest to win a $10 million prize," writes John Antczak/AP, here.
5. An albino black bear in the Flathead Valley? Yep. And Montanan Rob Derby has the carcass to prove it. Rob's bear was the third albino bruin harvested in the Griffen Creek drainage area near Whitefish in the last 20 years here.
6. IMHO-NW: G. George Ostrom (Krag the Kootenay Ram), Joel Connelly/P-I (Bush-Cheney flipflops), Michael Shadow (Bush's rhetorical skill), Floyd J. McKay/Western Washington journalism prof (Back-door military draft), and Danny Westneat/Seattle Times (NASCAR race track).
7. Army Capt. Eric L. Allton, a Boise resident, was killed in Iraq Sunday when a mortar round hit him here.
8. U.S. Rep. George Nethercutt is using a photo of Osama bin Laden and U.S. Sen. Patty Murray's words to challenge his rival in a campaign attack ad here.
