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I hope you all noticed the bold initiative of the Star Tribune, as expressed on their editorial page on Sunday. Yup, they put their heads together, snorted and wheezed with the Herculean effort, pressed hard on their temples to concentrate the intellect, and made their endorsement regarding tomorrow's "Super Tuesday" nationwide primaries and caucuses.

And you thought they were too timid to actually make an endorsement without doing a focus group first of what they could get away with without offending their ever shrinking base of readers and advertisers.

Beware Minnesotans, as you look hungrily toward the weekend of various and sundry dips, lowest common denominator too hot for TV sales pitches, and an incidental football game. For this weekend marks the opening of the Black Gates of Democracy, unleashing the unwashed hordes of political