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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for March 8th, 2013, the Screw You.

Let's Have Lunch Edition.

I'm David Plotz, the editor of Slate, joined today by Slate's chief political correspondent John Dickerson, finally free of grand jury duty. John, revealing no

confidences. Can you tell us, did you indict a ham sandwich? I did, and a pastrami.

Was it Virginia ham or prosciutto? It was a smoked, smoked ham. A smoked ham sandwich?

Most cases were drug cases, so it was smoked. Emily Bazelon is unexpectedly trapped at O'Hare Airport, I think, in Chicago, and so we have a more than able guest stepping in an emergency.

Wait, is she not in O'Hare?

No, no, no.

It's an O'Hare raising experience.

You were just...

We ran a piece this week about the decline of the

American pun, and apparently the American pun has declined everywhere except at the Dickerson household.

No, no, no, but it's declined in the examples of the ones I use. So anyway, in Emily's place,

we have Slate's senior political reporter Dave Weigel. Hello, Dave. Welcome. I'm glad to be here,

and I've been trapped in airport recently as two Dave. Welcome. I'm glad to be here, and I've been trapped in an airport

recently as two weeks ago, so I'm willing to give Emily some tips when this is over.

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