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Just when we thought the IRS couldn’t get any nerdier… Excerpt from today’s Politico Pro Whiteboard: Rep. Charles Boustany, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee, is pressing the IRS to release a parody of Star Trek that was produced in the agency’s suburban Maryland studio facilities. …

Leonard Nimoy is tired of being the only original Trek cast member not either dead or gainfully employed [you can find Nichelle Nichols at your local BK drive thru], so he’s switching places with the Gentlehipster from Connecticut, Rosa DeLauro. J.J. Abrams couldn’t be more excited with the change. No …