A**holes

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Image: skampy via: flickr
Image: skampy via: flickr
Interviewer(s): 
Jim Fleming
Steve Paulson
Anne Strainchamps
Guest(s): 
Geoffrey Nunberg
Aaron James
Robert Sutton
Producer(s): 
Doug Gordon
01.27.2013

The a**hole certainly isn't on any endangered species lists.  Quite the opposite, in fact.  We're seeing a population explosion.  So we have to ask -- Are we living in the Age of  the A**hole?

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