FWIW, I would appreciate if future selection of sources of randomness for Nomcom selection omitted politically-charged values, especially where entropy has not been established. In particular, I see no reason to highlight the US Debt vs. that of other countries or regions other than as a political statement. There are plenty of lotteries from which to select random sources, and the entropy of the debt values (even the low-order digits) has not been validated. Joe