Lightning Round - 021014

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• Apparently defensive lineman Michael Sam, late of the University of Missouri, is gay. Sam would like to play in the NFL. I would assume that if he has the skill set, and a lot of people who know about such things seem to think he does, he'll get his opportunity.
• The Strib has gotten around to reviewing the Republican candidates for governor. They could have saved time if they ran the "Surrender Dorothy" shot from the Wizard of Oz instead of Baird Helgeson's article, which spends as much time talking about how great things are as it does about the candidates who are running. A lot of people on the port side seem to think that Mark Dayton is in great shape. I'm not so sure.
• There's some interesting stuff in this trove of documents from Hillary Clinton. Let's just say that she makes Henry Kissinger look like a moony-eyed idealist. Might have more to say about this later.