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Hello and welcome to the Double X Gab Fest for Thursday, November 17th.

I'm Kate Julian, an editor of Double X and I'm joined here in our Washington, D.C. studio by two special guests, Slate editor David Plotz.

Hi, David.

Hello.

And Double X contributor and Dear Prudence columnist Emily Yafi. Hello, Emily. And David, you look lovely as usual. Thank you, Emily. Do you like what I've done with my hair?

There's no hair, folks. I like the beautiful purple shirt, and that's all I will say about that.

Today is the gluten-free Thanksgiving edition, and we're going to talk about three topics.

The first is Elizabeth Warren's Massachusetts Senate campaign, including her campaign's first ad and the first anti-worn ad, both of which came out this week.

The second is Emily's

fantastic series for double X on readers' experiences of life in the Great Recession. The latest

installment came out late last week and focuses on strategies readers have used good, bad, ugly,

to get by without money or without much money. And finally, as we look ahead to Thanksgiving

travel craziness, we'll talk about unruly children on airplanes. First, let's start with Elizabeth Warren.

The Harvard bankruptcy expert who is tasked with setting up the new consumer financial protection

bureau, but who has passed over prominently the summer after much

venomous Republican opposition is now running for Ted Kennedy's old seat in Massachusetts

and is fast becoming a sort of mascot of the left wing of the Democratic Party.

Emily, did you look at this new anti-waran ad that came out late last week?

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