Ahron McArney, 13, of Middleton, Idaho reads to therapy dog Skye, a 6-year-old Sheltie during the "Reading Tails" program at the Nampa Library in Nampa on Saturday. (AP Photo/The Idaho Press-Tribune, Mike Vogt)
[...]This one's for Idaho Dad and any other Merry Huckster who might want to see former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin in a University of Idaho sweatshirt. Photographer Paula Marchinko provided it from the Palin book signing in Sandpoint last week for Trish Gannon's new blog, Raspberries, here.
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Santa looks for a little help during a photo as Cameron Dirr, center right, 11 months, of Green Township, starts to cry as his older bother Jaycob, right, 11, attempts to calm him on Saturday in Delhi, Ohio. Cousin Timothy Kemplin, 9 months, of Green Township, looks on. You write [...]
Gonzaga guard Demetri Goodson, left, tangles with Davidson guard Brendan McKillop, right, in the second half of an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2009, in Seattle. Gonzaga won 103-91. ESPN boxscore here. Jim Meehan's Sportslink story here. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
Idaho 82, Eastern Oregon 77A great blue heron attempts to keep warm as it perches on a log over the frozen South Umpqua River in Roseburg, Ore., on Friday. (AP Photo/The News-Review, Robin Loznak)
[...]In this Aug. 20, 2000, file photo, Tiger Woods points to his ball as it drops for birdie on the first hole of a three-hole playoff against Bob May at the PGA Championship at the Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Ky. On his web site tonight, Woods announced that he [...]
Mary and Joseph, center, played by Cassi and Dan Fitzgerald, plus the Angel Gabriel, right, played by Matt Horvath, and a shepherd, left, played by Shane Shaffer, wish happy holidays to travelers passing through the Living Faith Fellowship Living Nativity on Thursday in Pullman. (Dean Hare photo/Moscow-Pullman Daily News)
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Posters for ex-Playboy Playmate Rebekka Armstrong’s speech about being HIV-positive depicted her nude (her private parts were covered) with an IV pole attached to her. After the poster was displayed in the Idaho Commons, the photo was obscured by stickers stating, “This insults women.” One struggles with the [...]
Sarah Palin, wearing a University of Idaho sweatshirt, wasn't as hurried in her hometown of Sandpoint, as she paused with hubby Todd to take photos with family friends. Sarah's father, Chuck Heath, a former Bonner County educator, is in the foreground taking this photo, while MamaJD snapped a photo for' [...]
Students take pictures as hooded members of a fraternity run naked inside the school compound as part of their yearly activity Friday at the University of the Philippines campus in Manila. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Pat Roque)
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1. The latest instructional video, “How to Play like Tiger Woods”, debuts [...]At More Main Street, KerriT provides a photo of the autograph that about 1,200 people stood in line in single-digit temperatures last night to get. Kerri provides more photos of people who braved the frigid weather to get Sarah Palin's autograph here.
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The ass in the photo on the left, above, does not belong to my boyfriend—people keep asking!—it belongs to the guy in the photo on the right, above. His name is Merlin and he's a "surfing massage therapist," Kelly O tells me, and Merlin has a lovely' [...]

MamaJD just sent this photo via phone from inside the garden center at Fred Meyer, where people have been waiting all night to get their Sarah Palin's book autographed.
MamaJD: Everyone is in good friendly spirits. There is a cameraderie going that is hard to describe. I stopped in [...]

There are so many events tonight—a book about the medical science of the TV show House, a book with photos of Puget Sound, a book about mass political murder, and a book about having an "explorer's garden" of invasive plants—but there are really only three events that [...]
This is an entirely different emotional universe than Dan's instigating post, but today RadarOnline.com published this snapshot of Chaz Bono, "the daughter-turned-son of Cher and the late Sonny Bono, snapped smiling from ear-to-ear, as a friend dropped him off at his West Hollywood home on Wednesday."
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SR photographer Kathy Plonka has returned from the front lines (read: the line waiting for Sarah Palin at the garden center of Fred Meyer) with some swell photos, including one of the woman who has been waiting at the front of the line since well before 10 o'clock last night.' [...]
Dressed as a combination Elvis and Santa Claus, Tom Pall waves a sign advertising for a colon hydrotherapy clinic Wednesday in Las Vegas. Pall, who has been waving the sign for four hours a day for the past three months, said he gets 40-50 people a day honking, taking pictures [...]
Madison Paxton's editorial this week—about what to keep in mind as the Amanda Knox case moves through the Italian appeals process—may change the way you think about the case.
Prosecutor Giuliano Mignini's theory went as follows: Amanda, a violent, manipulative, oversexed [...]
MamaJD e-mailed this cell-phone photo of the Sarah Palin bus that just arrived in Coeur d'Alene. Here, it is shown in front of the Coeur d'Alene Resort parking garage. Tom Lutey/Billings Gazette discusses the fan reaction to Palin's Billings visit Tuesday here.
Cartoon: Apologies accepted/Milt Priggee, Seattle P-IErratic [...]Dairy farmer Brad Davis carries Moses, a Jersey Holstein calf mix at the farm of Brad Davis and Megan Johnson, right, in Sterling, Conn. Born the previous week, the calf has a white marking on its forehead in the approximate shape of a cross. (AP Photo/The Norwich Bulletin, Aaron Flaum)
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He might have swine flu:
MrsGooding's photostreamA cinema has banned fans from kissing the cardboard cutout of a film's lead actor — because they might catch swine flu.
Teenage girls had been planting kisses on, or hugging, the cutout of Brit heartthrob Robert Pattinson — who plays [...]

Fabrizio Troccoli, a photographer and journalist who has worked on the Amanda story from the day it broke, offers something like an Italian perspective on the Italian legal and enforcement system:
The verdict for me reflects the Italian mentality. I think that this sort of [...]
A United States Army soldier runs with the ball as United States Marines from the 2nd MEB, 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion try to tackle while playing a game of mud football following a rain storm at their base in Khan Neshin, Afghanistan, Wednesday. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
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