Well, we have an update on the death of Bill Sparkman, the US Census worker who was found dead at a cemetery in Daniel Boone National Forest.

He was naked except for his socks, gagged, and bound hand and foot with duct tape, and had the word “Fed” written on his chest in pen, but authorities are, “Still trying to determine if Sparkman died of foul play.”

Seriously, I understand how they might not know the motive, it could be a paranoid meth lab operator, or perhaps something to Glenn Beck’s 912 whack job anti-government paranoia, but when a man is found naked except for his socks, gagged, and bound hand and foot with duct tape, it’s foul play.

This is not some friend and confidant of Jerry Fallwell being found in his closet in wearing two rubber SCUBA suits, rubber underwear, diving gloves and slippers, “numerous straps and cords” restraining him, a leather belt, and a dildo in the anus covered with a condom.

This is a man who was clearly killed by someone else. Of course it’s foul play, and given the area, there is a non-zero possibility that the drug trade, particularly meth, might have something to do with this.

The question is who did this, and why, not whether there was foul play involved.