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Hello and welcome to the Slate political gab fest for Friday, May 11th, the absolutely comfortable gab fest.

I'm David Plotz, the editor of Slate back with you after a week's hiatus, joined in Washington, D.C. by John Dickerson Slate's chief political correspondent and political director for CBS News.

And joining us visually, ISD. N. Lee is Emily Bazelon in New Haven, Slate Senior Editor. Hello, Emily.

We can see you. We can see you. So you can't.

It's exciting, although John is very big of microphones. He's hiding.

A thicket of microphones. Hi.

So we're going to do three topics today. We're going to do, it's a great week. It's a great

political week. It's a great week. I'm excited for the show because we've got gay marriage.

We've got Mitt Romney and bullying. because we've got gay marriage. We've got

Mitt Romney and bullying and we've got the Indiana Senate race and Richard Lugar has lost in the

Indiana Senate race. We've got cocktail chatter. So those are going to be three awesome topics.

Before we do that, a great big, large announcement about our live show in two weeks, May 23rd in Washington, D.C.

At 6th and I, details are on our Facebook page.

That's Facebook.com slash GapFest and at the GapFest show, the Gap Fest page on Slate, or at

6th and I.

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