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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for May 2nd, 2014. The go-ahead

search my OKCupid profile edition. I'm David Plotz, the editor of Slate, and I have trickily relocated to Slate's New York office in our New York studio today, where I'm joined by Emily of House Baselon. Hello, Emily. Hello, you must be watching. You're some Game of Thrones. Are you guys Game of Thrones watchers?

We are, although it gives me nightmares, to be honest. Yeah, Hanna doesn't watch. It's yucky. I hide my eyes and it's still upsetting because there's so much sadism and you can't really protect yourself against that fully. Yes. In DC alone, never lonely. is John Dickerson. John is gearing up for the worst night of the year in Washington,

the White House Correspondents dinner. Hello, John.

Oh, it's true. It's true. Oof, that night. Have you all watched all the way through up to the latest of Game of Thrones? Yes. Yes. So have we finally. Oh, you caught up. What an accomplishment. It took a long time. On this week's show, no Game of Thrones, just the NBA drumming out racist Clippers owner, Donald Sterling. And everyone is feeling pretty good about themselves for doing that. Should they feel so smug? Then an execution goes horribly awry in Oklahoma. Will this hasten the end of capital punishment in America?

Then the Supreme Court asks whether cops can search your cell phone when they arrest you, your photos, your email, your bank statements, your love notes from John Dickerson, all those things.

Should they be allowed to search it? And we'll have cocktail chatter, of course. Before we get started, a reminder, Slate has launched Slate Plus, which is our brand new membership program. Slate Plus is not a paywall. Everything that's now free on Slate continues to be free. Instead, it's filled with delicious extras, particularly delicious if you are a podcast listener and a GabFest listener. If you join Slate Plus,

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Donald Sterling, the loathsome, cheapskate, racist, sleazy owner of Los Angeles Clippers

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