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Hello and welcome to the slate apolitical gabfest for December.

A political.

That's apolitical, David.

It's the, oh God, that sounded terrible.

So this is the Slate Political GabFest for the 31st of December, but we decided for one time a year and perhaps one time ever in eternity,

we will not talk specifically about politics, but instead change the format of the show a tiny bit.

So as those of you who visited our Facebook page know, we've put a call out for truth or dare

questions, which, in fact, the entire conceit was created by a Facebook participant whose name I've forgotten, but who...

Adam Navis.

Adam Navis has given us this idea, and if it doesn't work, it will blame Adam.

And so now we're going to begin.

Gail Sullivan, our intern, will be tending the questions,

which have been gone through by the accounting firm of Arthur Anderson and have come here in a sealed envelope, Gail. Take it away for the first question.

All right, David, the first one is for you.

This is a truth.

Truth. You could go for a dare. Yeah, you could refuse to answer. Okay. Truth. Of all the things you have written, which do you now think you are most wrong about? That's a really hard question. Because you're wrong about a lot? I'm wrong about so much. Wait, there was, gosh, I'm going to forget.

There's one piece which I was just so epically wrong about.

Okay, I have two examples.

One was just a major incredible error I made, but this was as a college student where I was

writing about Christian scientists.

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