From humor writer Dave Barry’s “Year in Review,” which, as always, is worth the read: “In Washington scandal news, the Internal Revenue Service, responding to a subpoena, tells congressional investigators that it cannot produce 28 months of Lois Lerner’s emails because the hard drive they were stored on failed, and the hard drive was thrown away, and the backup tapes were erased, and no printed copies were saved – contrary to the IRS’s own record-keeping policy, which was eaten by the IRS’s dog. ‘It was just one crazy thing after another,’ states the IRS, ‘and it got us to thinking: All these years we’ve been subjecting taxpayers to everything short of rectal probes if they can’t produce EVERY SINGLE DOCUMENT WE WANT, and here we lose YEARS worth of official records! So from now on, if taxpayers tell us they lost something, or just plain forgot to make a tax payment, we’ll be like, "Hey, whatever! Stuff happens!” Because who are we to judge?’ But all kidding aside, you can bet that before this thing is over there will be a strongly worded report.“

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