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While the Republicans in Washington hold the American economy hostage, while California’s non-partisan political boundary drafters prepare to be drawn and quartered by whoever gets his ox gored, while San Francisco debates the pros and cons of an anti-Semitic movement against foreskin removal, the Calbuzz Department of Recreation, Relaxation and Retribution has mandated a one-day furlough. For all the bean-counters among our readers, that’s unpaid leave — the perfect analog to our unpaid everything else.