On this week's episode of Gabfest Radio, Political Gabfest panelists Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz—in front of a live audience at San Francisco's Rickshaw Stop—tackle life's most vexing conundrums. For example, would you rather be smarter or funnier?

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