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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for April 3rd, 2015.

So who can you discriminate against?

Edition, I'm David Plott, I've had a sub-scriber in Washington, DC.

To my right is John Dickerson of Slate and CBS News. Hello, John.

And to my left, but 450 miles away, but on a computer to my left.

That's just how far to your left she is.

Is Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine? Hello, Emily.

Hello, David.

I saw Emily in her natural habitat of the New York Times Magazine this week.

Oh really?

Yeah, I looked up in the cafeteria and there was David.

Oh yeah, that's when I got that weird email from you guys saying,

yeah, you'd been needing without me.

I didn't dictate that email because he was having trouble typing it.

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