Colorado--in the news!

Via, oddly (yeah, right), Tim Blair, the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel tells the sad tale of a protestor in an "injured chicken" costume in front of a Junction KFC, and the customers who mocked him.

And via the Rocky Mountain News, the mayor of Tal Afar, Iraq, pays a visit to the soldiers at Fort Carson:

"Are you truly my friends?" he asked through a translator. "Yes. I walk a happier man because you are my friends. You are the world to me. I smell the sweet perfume that emanates from your flower of your strength, honor and greatness in every corner of Tal Afar. The nightmares of terror fled when the lion of your bravery entered our city."

Despite the unenthusiastic phraseology, I believe the man means it.

Update: Oops, almost missed the best one. Via Romenesko, a woman is suing the Durango Herald for hiding the truth about the 9/11 attacks:

A Durango woman issued a court summons to The Durango Herald, its publisher and its chairman on Thursday, demanding the newspaper compensate her for her attempt to uncover what she believes is a conspiracy to suppress the truth about the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Judith Pfeif, representing a group called Caring for Our Community, obtained a summons requiring the Herald to appear in La Plata County small-claims court on June 1.

Pfeif wants $7,500 compensation - the maximum allowed in small-claims court - for expenses incurred researching the attacks and publicizing her view of what happened.

Pfeif wrote in her petition, "The defendants are guilty of complicity in covering up the truth about the 9/11 tragedy, thus making every one of them accomplices in the greatest crime of this century."