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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for Friday, the 13th of April 2012, the crazy white racist gabfest.

I'm David Plotz, the editor of Slate.

I'm here in Slate, Washington.

It's going to be a really weird show. It's like a weird format. For some reason, John is not on the show today because we thought he was going to be traveling. He turned out not to be traveling. So Will Salatan, Slate, Senior Editor, is stepping in. Will, welcome. Thank you. When's the last time you had a Friday, the 13th show? I don't know. Kind of regularly happens, I feel. That's Emily Bazelon, Slate Senior Editor, joining us from New Haven, and we have a special guest for our first segment. Tana Hassee Coates, the Atlantic's just superb blogger. Tana Hossi joins us from... Where are you, Tana Hossi?'m in New York, and I'm so happy to be called in for the crazy white racist segment.

All right, well, we look forward to your advice about crazy white racists.

We're going to do three segments today.

Our first segment is going to be about the Trayvon Martin Zimmerman case and also about the appalling writings of some folks at National Review that came under attend came to everyone's attention this

week. Our second subject will be the dropping out of Rick Santorum from the presidential race.

Our third will be Anne Romney, who has never worked a day in her life, apparently.

We'll be talking about whether Anne Romney has, in fact, worked a day in her life.

She has. She has.

We'll have cocktail chatter.

So, actually, you know, one quick thing before we get to our first topic, just a

reminder, anyone who is coming to our Purdue live show next week on April 18th, first of all,

it's not too late. If you think you can make it, just let us know slate.com slash Indiana,

sign up for free tickets. It's a free show at Purdue's University Church next Wednesday evening.

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