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Suffering from election withdrawal like me?  Here’s a tip:  Subscribe to Mike Allen’s Playbook (part of the excellent Politico website) by e-mail.  Every morning (and I mean EVERY morning – Christmas, New Year’s, whatever) you get an awesome mix of top news, inside-the-Beltway scuttlebutt and ‘hat tips’ (acknowledgements from Mike to his legion of stealth spotters of birthdays, anniversaries, political curiosities, eye-raisers and head-scratchers).  It’s so good it ought to be a forbidden pleasure.  Newsweek recently called him “The Beltway’s Man Who Never Sleeps.”  Read that piece because it gets right to the heart and energy of the guy as well as to what makes his work so damn good.  It’s the first thing I read every morning.