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Hello, and... GabFest. Hello and welcome to the Slate Political GabFest for September 26th, 2014, the Dead,

Dead, Dead at 75 edition.

I'm David Plotz, the editor at large of Slate in Washington, D.C.

On this week's show, Eric Holder steps down as Attorney

General. Can you blame him? Then the president's war against ISIS, ISIL, whatever you want to call it,

is it wise and is it legal? And then an article in the Atlantic magazine written by a 57-year-old

makes the case that you should die at 75.

Plus, cocktail chatter.

I've got a great Teddy Roosevelt, another Teddy Roosevelt cocktail chatter this week.

And in Slate Plus, the incredible story of John Downey, who was held as a prisoner of war longer than any person in American history.

Emily Bazelon, still no longer a Slate editor,

still unemployed, though. Still, this is your last day of unemployment, not joining the long-term

unemployed is in New Haven. Hello, Emily. Hello, David. And John Dickerson, who had never been

unemployed, John, have you ever been unemployed, John? Your Slate Senior Editor?

No, he's not. Oh, you're not Slate Senior. You're Slate's Chief Polito and correspondent. It depends. Let's see. My first job was in a summer of seventh grade and I've had a job every either at some point during the year, every year since then. But have there ever been a period as an adult where you didn't have a job?

It depends. When I wrote my book, I took three months off, but that's not... some point during the year, every year since then. But have there ever been a period as an adult where you didn't have a job?

It depends. When I wrote my book, I took three months off, but that's not... No, you had a job. You knew you were coming to sleep. I'm constantly, yeah. It's crazy. It is. I'd like to try and we see what it feels like to not have a job. It's weird. there's this way the rhythm, I think of this is, because when you're a student, life is very seasonal and you feel the seasons, right? But then when you're working, the world becomes totally undifferentiated. Oh, I don't think that's true. I feel the, I still feel the seasons from the school experience. I guess because your kids. But do you feel it for yourself?

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