Today's "Off the Mark" by Mark Parisi

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Alexandra (Alex) Duggan@alexdugganreports.bsky.social · 2d ago

I was on the scene that day and watched people flag police down to talk to someone walking away from the fire. My law enforcement sources confirmed to me this evening my description of the person I saw was consistent with the suspect. Here’s the story so far: www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...

More than 700 structures burned. 67,000 residents evacuated. 14 people unaccounted for so far. Here are The Spokesman-Review's front pages over the past three days of fires...

115 years ago Saturday, Congress passed the Apportionment Act, which capped the number of House seats at 435. My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review shows how many House seats each state has had since then.

Officials arrest a 37-year-old man suspected of starting at least one of the three fires that affected Spokane this week. www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...

Investigators arrest 37-year-old man in connection to devastating Spokane County wildfire

A 37-year-old man accused of setting the fire that destroyed a swath of northwest Spokane, including hundreds of homes, was arrested Monday 4 miles from the site where it began.

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Monday's front page of the fires in Spokane, Washington. Photos by Brian Plonka, Tyler Tjomsland and Kathy Plonka. Design by Chris Soprych. Map by Molly Quinn. Amazing work by my colleagues there in Spokane.

What's going on in Spokane this weekend.

105 years ago next Monday, 39-year-old New York lawyer and politician Franklin Delano Roosevelt felt the first symptoms of what would later be diagnosed as infantile paralysis: Polio. My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review.

30 years ago Monday, the Miami-based Bayside Boys' electro-dance remix of the flamenco song "Macarena" by Los Del Rio began a 14-week run at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review. Good luck getting THIS out of your head today...

For those of you who wonder how I come up with all the material for my Further Review pages ... Stephan Pastis explains.

45 years ago Saturday, the cable TV channel MTV was launched. The first music video shown: "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles. My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review.

my email is tomtomorrow at gmail and I would be delighted to hear from an interested publisher.

Why is this guy still in office? Why isn't this guy in prison?

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · last wk.

🚨 NEW: A $121,617 home renovation invoice used by Ken Paxton’s defense during his impeachment trial was dated September 1, 2020. But the file’s metadata shows it was actually created a month later, on a VERY significant date. We obtained the invoice. Here’s what we found:

85 years ago Saturday, the first Jeep -- a utility vehicle rush-built to specifications by the U.S. Army that was preparing for another World War -- rolled off the assembly line at Willys. My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review.

"Pearls Before Swine" by Stephan Pastis

"Off the Mark" by Mark Parisi

105 years ago Monday, a pair of Canadian scientists successfully isolated insulin, a hormone that could be used to treat diabetes. My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review includes a photo of one of my own insulin pens.

not really surprised to learn that terminal stupidity and racism is the reason i can’t walk into a CVS and just buy a toothbrush without flagging down the one person who might be in the store dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to...

We used to be able to buy things in this country

Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy

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The power ballad “(Everything I Do) I Do It for You” was submitted by singer-songwriter Bryan Adams to be used in a Kevin Costner movie about Robin Hood. It hit No. 1 35 years ago Monday. My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review.

Here's a dumb question for you... It's been nearly two years since I joined Instagram on the advice of my daughter, who knew I wanted to expand my social media reach in advance of the release of my first book. I post a lot of stuff there. But I get very little reactions, likes and so forth ...

Walt Disney had long been fascinated by Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland books. He finally made an animated "Alice in Wonderland" movie 75 years ago next week. My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review.

Author William Sidney Porter spent three years in prison for a crime he most likely didn't commit. He was released 125 years ago Friday and went on to become famous for the twist endings he wrote in his short stories, under the pen name O. Henry. My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review.

Do you remember when Google's company motto was "Don't be evil"? They shifted away from that 11 years ago. Stories like this -- free link from the NYT -- make me think that shift was more like a 180-degree U-turn. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/t...

How Google’s A.I. Search Is Imperiling the Open Web (Gift Article)

As Google incorporates more artificial intelligence into search, people are spending more time on Google. Some website operators are crying foul.

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They edited Trump out of the photo... and edited in Mitch McConnell?

Pat Bagley@bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 2w ago

Let’s do the same

Shame on me for not whipping these out when Pat Oliphant died back on Monday. But my home library includes two collections of his work. RIP to one of the all-time greatest editorial cartoonists...

A half century ago next Saturday, NASA's Viking 1 probe spotted something odd on the surface of Mars. Something strange. Something creepy. Something easily explainable. My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review.

"The Daily Show" debuted on Comedy Central 30 years ago next Wednesday. The host for the first three seasons: Craig Kilborn, from ESPN's "Sports Center." My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review.

Hey, Beatles fans: May Pang is the personal assistant that Yoko Ono hand-picked in 1973 to have a year-and-a-half-long affair with John Lennon. Lennon called it his "lost weekend." Pang's photo work from that period will be on display in Spokane this weekend. www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...

'Everyday was an adventure': Ex-lover of John Lennon brings photos from 'lost weekend' to Marmot Art Space

May Pang’s birthday parties usually go off in a typical fashion; laughs and chatter filling the air of her one-bedroom New York apartment as it overflows with friends. But at one of her coveted partie...

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A half-century ago Saturday, 14-year-old Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci earned the first perfect scores in her sport at the Montreal Olympics. The scoreboard couldn't even show a score of "10.0." My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review.

A federal prosecutor who marched to the Capitol on Jan. 6 was appointed this year to run a national task force targeting alleged left-wing political violence. New from @joshkovensky.bsky.social talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi...

EXCLUSIVE: Trump DOJ’s Top ‘Antifa’ Prosecutor Marched with Crowd on Jan. 6

On Jan. 6, 2021, a man approached the Capitol who looked like...

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