AP: New Details on Tillmans Death – Forbes.com Among other information contained in the documents:_ In his last words moments before he was killed, Tillman snapped at a panicky comrade under fire to shut up and stop “sniveling.” _ Army attorneys sent each other congratulatory e-mails for keeping criminal investigators at bay as the Army conducted an internal friendly-fire investigation that resulted in administrative, or non-criminal, punishments. _ The three-star general who kept the truth about Tillman’s death from his family and the public told investigators some 70 times that he had a bad memory and couldnt recall details of…

The Salt Lake Trib has a surprisingly robust editorial on the passing of Tammy Faye Bakker Messner. I’ve never approved of televangelists whose conspicuous consumption while spouting the so-called “prosperity gospel” seemed out of keeping with the Biblical message of helping the poor – it was too much like helping themselves to as much cash they could cadge from a gullible public. But even so, “nil nisi bonum” and all that. Although, I’m pretty taken with the image of Tammy Faye’s spackle – you know, that stuff she laid on with a trowel. Salt Lake Tribune – Tammy Faye Messner:…

Pot crops, campsite found in preserve — chicagotribune.com n a Cook County forest preserve, about 200 yards from a highway commuters hum along every day, authorities uncovered an elaborate marijuana-growing operation, with 6-foot-tall plants nearly ready to harvest and campsites stocked with beer, canned food, insect repellent and, on one cot, a copy of High Times magazine.On Tuesday, as an Illinois National Guard helicopter circled above the Crabtree Nature Center Forest Preserve near northwest suburban Barrington, federal agents joined local police in chopping and burning as many as 30,000 marijuana plants found last month when a Forest Preserve District intern…