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Thank you. But hurry, there are only three more episodes left. Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest, the Kane Mutiny Edition.

My name is David Plotz.

I'm the editor of Slate.

I'm here in Washington, D.C., with CBS News political director and Slate, Chief Political Correspondent, John Dickerson, whose title is now longer than the show itself.

Joining us by phone from New Haven is not even by phone, by ISDN.

The Miracle of Technology is Emily Bazelon, Slate's senior editor. Hello, Emily.

Hello. I feel like I should get some longer title. I'm going to come up with something. Don't you have that? You're the Truman Capote, whistling, gixie, plate spinning, whatever you are. The Baroness. Baroness is good. I like Baroness. Of Lower Devon, possibly. It's, you know, this is my, the David Ploss's daughter's birthday edition, too.

My daughter's, my daughter's birthday is Friday.

Happy birthday.

December 2nd.

How?

11.

Nice.

All right.

We're going to have three topics today.

We are going to talk about the state of Herman Kane and Newt Gingrich.

One up, one down. We will talk, or one down, one up. We will talk about the goings on in Europe and in Egypt and how they connect. And we'll talk about a very tragic Supreme Court decision that Emily wrote about this week and why it happened.

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