PARTING SHOTS: Bill Clinton is not a fan of Michele Bachmann or the tea party movement

Brett Michael Dykes
·National Affairs Reporter

Here is our roster of stories that managed to evade the full-on blog treatment:

• Bill Clinton did not mince words when talking about Rep. Michele Bachmann and the tea party at a fundraiser in Minnesota. (Salon)

• The Obama administration ordered the oil and gas industry to permanently shut nearly 3,500 nonproducing wells and to dismantle roughly 650 production platforms not currently in use. (WWL)

• Rumors out of North Korea purport that Kim Jong Il is very sick. (ABC)

• Add psychics to the list of things Christine O'Donnell is on record as being morally opposed to. (Mediaite)

• Set your DVRs and TiVos ... Jon Stewart and Bill O'Reilly will make home-and-away guest appearances next week. (L.A. Times)

• Steve Forbes has apparently been brushing up on his photo-editing-software skills. (Copyranter)

• The anonymous blogger behind Blog del Narco — a blog that tracks the bloody Mexican drug wars — speaks. (Boing Boing)

• Outgoing BP CEO Tony Hayward told British investigators that he's "devastated" over the Gulf oil disaster. (BBC)