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Demonstrating once again that certainty and knowledge are inversely correlated:

One camp is absolutely certain federal workers are paid twice what private-sector employees receive. Another camp is absolutely certain they’re paid 24% less. The first is outraged at how overpaid federal workers are. The second is outraged at the propaganda leading to the outrage of the first.

As FactCheck.org reports, the studies cited by each camp in support of its position are so flawed as to be useless. The last credible comparison was conducted in 1990.

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Move over Adkins. It’s time to leave South Beach. Berry sorry, Acai — we don’t need you anymore either. My new, superior diet is guaranteed to leave those unwanted pounds behind.

I call it the Semiotic Diet. It’s simple in concept and even simpler in execution: Rather than prepare and eat actual food, you draw symbolic equivalents (we’ll have an iPad app shortly). Then, while focusing on each food symbol in turn, you envision yourself stuffing your gullet with whatever delicious treats you’ve chosen.

The U.S. workforce has been on a diet for decades.

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