It's been a long week — especially for one cut short by a holiday.

(Speaking of which, the latest numbers I saw suggested roughly 30 percent of employers honor Martin Luther King Day by closing up shop and making it a paid holiday. And that's actually up from 28 percent last year. For the first time, our own company honored it this year, as well, but I guess I'm still surprised it hasn't caught on any more than that…)

At any rate, despite this week dragging along like a stubborn toddler, it was full of news of the "no kidding?" kind. (We actually call it something else internally, but it's not really fit for print.)

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