I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time.

Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is a sweaty armpit

because your wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps and heath and you get to the top

and you're like, and then you can see the breath but then your nose is still freezing to touch.

Joy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.

Here at Slate, Seth Stevenson is the guy we send to big trials.

He started out covering the Microsoft antitrust trial that was nearly 25 years ago.

I covered Michael Jackson's trial and Scooter Libby and then Whitey Bulger and Johar Sornaya.

I got interested in his latest trial, Sarah Palin versus The New York Times,

after he'd been hanging around the Southern District of New York reporting on a different prosecution.

I covered the Gillenn Maxwell trial, which is also in this district.

I sort of got on the email list and they sent out notable trials upcoming and I saw this one and I said,

whoa, that's interesting. Then I read a little bit more about it and I said, whoa,

the future of American journalism is possibly at stake here.

And I said, I would like to see that. So that's how I came to be there.

Sarah Palin versus The New York Times is about a journalistic error.

The stuff of every reporter's nightmares.

I think part of the reason why this case has been so fascinating for people like you and me

is that it's about a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

That is very familiar to all of us.

Everyone has gotten something wrong in an article and woken up in the middle of the night

and been like, did I mess that up?

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