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Supreme court and i'm not sure i totally understand it. joining us now is dahlia. dahlia is cited by name, by justice bryer on page dwun21 of his dissent. congratulations. is that like another day at the office for you. i'm cited in this supreme court opinion? that's no big deal. >> that's a pretty big deal. i have to say, being cited for writing one of thousands of articles that nobody reads about how much the death penalty sucks in a dissent that says nobody is going to read this because we lost, the death penalty sucks, i'll take it. >> i read all of your articles and posts about how the de...

Contributed to the 2008 state of the union address. good morning, guys. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> i think those examples show you how difficult it is to come up with something that endures beyond a state of the union, so when you're writing it, do you say, okay, this is the line, or all right, guys, we have to sit down and find that magic moment? >> well, usually the process is so chaotic that you rarely have time to think about putting a decent line in. the state of the union is always known as a laundry list, and working on one, writing one, is like you own a laundromat and everyb...

Post." >> gene, do you write like every three hours? >> that's what he does. >> how many columns do you have a week? >> i have two a week, but, you know, yes, i write every three hours. >> in fact, he's writing one -- look at his right arm. it's moving just a little bit. he's writing one right now. >> yeah. >> all right. the gop -- >> hard to do on those touch screen smartphones, i'm working on it. >> here's what you say in the "washington post" this morning, eugene. there are only two possible reasons for house republicans to behave the way they did, maybe they're so blinded by ideology they ...