Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for Friday, October the 14th, 2011.

I'm David Plotsy, Eddorf Slate, here.

As always, with John Dickerson, Slate's chief political correspondent.

On my right and joining us delightfully in from where do you I can't remember

where you live where does she live the wild remember where she's from we never talk about it

they slay their own even that's it yeah where is that in Yale is there is Emily Bazelon Emily

it's so nice to have you here good to to be mocked in person. What could be better? No, you're not being mocked. You mock as much as you get mocked. I agree. Do you think? I feel like I've actually in the last few weeks maybe gone to mock a little more at your expense. I look forward to more opportunities today.

I'm glad that at the time of the Jewish New Year, when you're atoning for all the things

you've done wrong and trying to get a fresh start, that you chose that. He's playing a religion card.

In the register, in the register of life to mock away. It's my New Year's resolution. Make fun of David as much as possible. John, close runner up. Is the register of life online now, by the way? You are always like, that's the kind of thing that you find. What's the register of life? I just made that. Oh, you mean like the book? Well, like, you know, I was thinking like a wedding register registry and anyway. Yeah. I don i'm not sure i don't know but whenever we

get to that part in the prayer about how you're about to be signed i i sing really heartily i really

want to be in that book of life every year i feel like that's an important line in the service

what do you think it was it's supposed to be do you think it was a metaphor or do you think they envisioned it as an actual book? I feel like Jews are very literal and so perhaps it was an actual book. So it was a scroll. An actual document. But now, now what it would be? Oh, I don't think it ever existed. Right. Now it would be electronic. It would be virtual. All right.

There was an interesting, this is totally off point.

We're completely off point.

We haven't really started and we're completely off point.

If there is a point, we are right, dead center on time of.

One of our colleagues was just, we just ran a piece about this interstellar travel conference.

DARPA had a big conference about trying to design a starship for interstellar travel,

how you would do it.

Yeah, okay.

And they had these Catholic theologians there, and apparently there's an open question about whether if there is alien life, is that alien life subject to God?

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