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Sally, maybe you can tell Al about the Wellstone Memorial benches.

As far as substantive questions, you might want to ask him how long it'll take the current Dem leadership to grow a new backbone or if he thinks
AirAmericaRadio might create a post-post-modern media architecture ala the DailyKos' user-fueled political wiki. Currently, AAR structures their feedback in a blog-like fashion. It'd be great to see an integrated approach combining their on-air interviews, guest links and peer-reviewed feedback to compile a resource for repudiating the Malkins of the world.

This might seem trite - but perhaps you could ask him if became more serious about his comedy after 9-11. He's a pro, he's very funny, and I think that for most of career he always went for the laugh (not the easy laugh, mind you, just the laugh) but it seems in his last book he was more interested in the point than the laugh.

Deeper, richer.

Of course, he might have just changed his priorities because his children are almost grown and he's worried about legacy.

Or perhaps he has enough of one kind of legacy and wants another.

Or perhaps he has confidence after all these years of success. Or new medication.

In any case, using his ailing and confused mother and his love for her as a metaphor for his patriotism was fucking brilliant. He's doing good radio when he does his nine hours daily, but a lot of his work post 9-11 has a seriousness that just wasn't there before – although it always seemed to me that he was funny enough to pull it off.

I'd like to ask him his thoughts on the recent study, by university statiticians and pollsters, on their expert conclusion that it is a 1 in 959,000 chance Bush was actually elected, and the exit polls wrong.