Getting Ahead Of The Story

On occasion, in order to properly limit damage control, it's necessary to take a pre-emptive, self-inflicted hit in order to minimize the impact of your enemies ability to use certain information against you. This is one such occasion.

Peeps make a quiet stand:

Marshmallow Peeps, the popular Easter candy made of sugar, corn syrup and gelatin, have become a new symbol of protest in St. Paul these days.

The "Vision of Peace," a 36-foot, 60-ton onyx City Hall statue of American Indians, has become the stage for a peculiar form of civil discourse. Since last week's decision to kick the Easter Bunny out of a City Council office, a handful of employees have ringed the statue with the spongy chick- and rabbit-shaped candies.

Two laminated signs even announce the statue's temporary new moniker--"Vision of Peeps."

It began last week, when someone left a couple of Peeps boxes at the base of the statue. But over the weekend the marshmallow critters, as rabbits tend to do, multiplied. There are now about two dozen boxes.

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