March 5th is the 31st anniversary of the day a fantastical story appeared in the Laredo Times. A daring reporter wrote about a giant worm crawling out of the Rio Grande and making its way to the Target parking lot on San Dario and Del Mar. When avid Times readers got wind of this, they flocked to the north Laredo establishment to get a peek of the enormous creature. It was all a ruse. There was no worm. The story was fake. The story's writer was testing the vulnerabilities that existed at the newspaper, mostly that of a disengaged editor. Heads rolled after that piece was published. Here's a link to a blog post from 2007. Today is also Super Tuesday, the day that voters in Texas get to select party candidates to compete in the November election. What the two weeks of early voting have shown, however, is a lack of interest in the democratic process. The public is disengaged. KGNS reported on Friday, March 1st, that 18,714 people had cast a vote. More than 18K