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Dear Big Daddy,

New reader here. What's this "Big Five" everybody keeps talking about, and what do they have to do with passing a budget?

–Curious in Colfax

Dear Greenhorn,

Well, son, a Big Five is what happens when a man cares deeply about another man's opinion but they can't quite agree, and then there's this third man involved and a fourth, and they don't agree either

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