| Where to get up close and personal with your sweetheart
Just in time for Valentine planning, we asked readers for favorite honeymoon hideaways. - "I love the honeymoon cabin at Illahee Manor Bed & Breakfast Estate (6680 Illahee Road N.E., Bremerton). It was built from the wood on the property by the original owner and is a cozy place for two to snuggle up and enjoy a romantic interlude. The managers are great at making sure your unique requests are met, too." — Robb Zerr, Melbourne, Fla. - "We spent our wedding night at Thornewood Castle (8601 N. Thorne Lane S.W., Lakewood, Pierce County). We stayed in the Presidential Suite. The room had a tall four-poster bed, 16th century stained-glass window insets, a Jacuzzi tub and a lovely view of American Lake. We felt as though we were visiting some remote Bavarian estate." — Cathy Hall, Tacoma - "Big Red Barn Bed and Breakfast (309 V St., Port Townsend) has a great Jacuzzi, comfy bed and a cute yard.
Friday wild card
We'll have years and years and years of multiple appeals, bouncing back and forth costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars and requiring witnesses and family members to worry and testify 10, 15 and even 20 years into the future. The Ninth Circuit will undoubtedly strike down the sentencing once or twice, and because the US Senate has failed to split the Ninth Circuit, his appeals will languish for years in an overburdened court. Eventually, he will pass away in prison. DFO: 007 put into a few words why I've switched my position on the death penalty. I'm not against frying a thug like Alofa Time. But it won't happen. Give 'im life without possibility of parole -- and he'll no longer be a menace to society. With luck, he'll find a way to kill himself. .
Ex-LSU star Robiskie has no problem rooting for OSU
BATON ROUGE � LSU coach Les Miles will soon lose the support of a prominent LSU alumnus in the coaching profession.
Miles met this man while in the Miami area last week recruiting. The man shook his hand and told him to his face that he would be pulling against him and his old school on Jan. 7.
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ORU alumni support sought
Uncertainty remained Saturday about what effect Richard Roberts' resignation as president will have on Oral Roberts University, but some observers said it was a step toward improvement.
"I think people are going to be waiting and watching: OK, can it survive without a Roberts at the helm?" said Donald R. Vance, professor of biblical languages and literature.
Vance said he thinks alumni need to support ORU as it undergoes this transition, after being led for 42 years by a Roberts. ORU professors are committed to the school's evangelical Christian mission, but that might not be obvious without a TV minister as president, he said. Christian colleges across the country are led by non-ministers -- "it will just be different for us."
ORU leaders have not addressed what role, if any, Roberts will have at the university.
HOT DISH: George Strait Is Country's Coolest Guy
Ask anybody in the music business and they will answer without thinking, "Hands down, George Strait is the coolest guy in country music." Record producer Tony Brown gave me an example of the Cowboy's cool.
"I was at the Kentucky Derby waiting to meet up with George and his wife, Norma," Tony said. "The room was filled with big-time money businessmen, as well as actors and actresses from Hollywood, famous singers from all genres. In the door walked George and Norma, and every head turned and stared -- everyone in the room. Nobody in that room attracted the attention like George Strait." Tony laughed, "He's got it." Tony has produced all of Strait's records since 1992, and they have a long string of nothing but success.
George's annual tour began Jan. 10 with a wall-to-wall sellout in Austin, Texas.
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