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your data today. Okay, so we are back and better than ever. It's a brand new year,

and surely this year cannot be stupider than the last year. Yeah. So about that. So many things have happened while I

was out. Aside from my children badgering me and aside from me not getting enough sleep as I should

have over the break, it turns out many stupid things happened over the course of the break.

Perhaps the stupidest was this thing that happened

in Congress yesterday. I'm just going to mention this briefly because it is indicative of where this

year is going and then we'll get to the actual big news stories of the day. So yesterday,

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