Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for Friday, March 11th, 2011.

I'm David Plotz, the editor of Slate in Washington with John Dickerson, Slate's chief political correspondent.

And joining us from New Haven is Emily Bazelon, Slate's senior editor.

We're going to talk about three topics this week.

We're going to talk about – actually, we're going to talk about four topics this week.

But we're going to pretend we're talking about three topics this week.

We're going to talk about the Wisconsin uproar in the legislature with the union vote that happened this week.

We're going to talk about Peter King's hearings about the Muslim community and the radicalization of the American Muslim community.

We're going to talk about the closing or not closing of Guantanamo.

And we're going to talk about the Fior at NPR.

But first, before we do any of that, Emily is going to do a series of amazing announcements

which she's going to read in pig Latin.

I was going to say okay, but I can't say okay in pig Latin very easily.

All right, so we are coming to West Lafayette, Indiana,

on April 7th for a live show. It is our very first live show in the state of Indiana. We hope to

be invited back. But first, we want all of you to come and sign up for tickets. And we're

grateful to all of you who already have. We have a good crowd, but we would like many more.

So come to our Facebook page or our page on Slate and all the instructions and guidance you'll need for coming to West Lafayette, Indiana is there.

It's at slate.com slash Indiana.

And the tickets are free thanks to our friends at TIACraft, who are sponsoring the show.

So slate.com slash Indiana and get your free sign-up tickets there. I don't think that was grammatical.

No, it was good. Second announcement is that the Slate Culture Gab Fest is going to be at the South by Southwest Bonanza on March 17th at noon for anyone who has any kind of South by Southwest badge.

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