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Full disclosure: The headline is a lie. My daughter isn’t actually 2 years old yet. She’ll be 2 next month. But I…

Kahlil from Richmond, VA asks:

It wasn't always this way.

1. Look, I get it. Pretty much every living thing you see — humans, birds, gnats, plants, Zetas, etc — can…

In snowed in DC this morning. It is important to note what time it snowed (about 5am) because if it had snowed last…