International politics is not my strong suit. The older I get the less certain I am that I even HAVE a strong suit.
GENE WEINGARTENThe verb “Garland” should be created. It would mean to unfairly put a stinking albatross around someone’s neck, to make him unemployable.
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I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.
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Making stuff up is the worst thing a journalist can do. Plagiarizing is the second worst.
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Donald Trump is a boor, and cannot stop being a boor.
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It is hard to quantify the value of name recognition, but Donald Trump has gone from fame to international mega-fame. That has to be gargantuan when your business is your name.
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I don’t consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.
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One of my favorite footnotes in the hypochondria book [The Hypochondriac’s Guide to Life. And Death.] was about the death of one of the King Charleses. He was essentially bled and vomited to death by his doctors. They also drilled holes in his head.
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You know, I am not a particular Kennedy apologist or an awed fan – I was 12 when he was murdered – but I have discussed Kennedy with historians. For his incredibly short tenure, he was a very important president.
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Being “Jewish” is way stronger culturally than it is religiously.
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I believe that sensitivity to issues of race and ethnicity is important, and nuanced, even more so when it intersects with the issue of free speech.
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I don’t think there is prejudice against atheists the same way there is prejudice against fat people. I don’t think people hate or contemn atheists; I think people feel sorry for atheists.
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My neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.
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The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it’s hard. If you think it’s not hard, you’re not doing it right.
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It’s as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots.
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Donald Trump is an awful loser.
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When Trump says fake news, he means journalism that makes points with which he disagrees, usually about him.
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I think Marco Rubio could never have recovered from revealing himself to be pathetic.
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It is not a coincidence that Donald Trump has attracted white supremacists.
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On Twitter, people like me regularly get called “sore losers” by Trumpeters. It just makes me roll my eyes. This is not about winning and losing. We all lost, even them, they just don’t know it yet.
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The verb “Garland” should be created. It would mean to unfairly put a stinking albatross around someone’s neck, to make him unemployable.
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One thing I am learning from the kitten is that everything he is doing seems to be in preparation for murder.
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I very much believe in the Intentional Fallacy. If Donald Trump lies and dopes and bumbles and staggers his way into peace in the middle east, he gets credit for it. He owns it.
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From the inside, creativity seems like an arduous task, often involving plebeian, imperfect choices, driven less by inspiration than by deadline.
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We want to believe that the world is understandable and controllable and unthreatening, that if we follow the rules, we’ll be okay.
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Allowing a non-lawyer to be on the Supreme Court strikes me as a very American thing, in a good way. Another is that the speaker of the house doesn’t have to be a member of congress.
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My preference would have been a school that was totally diverse – half and half, or close. I wouldn’t have hesitated at all if they would have been in the racial minority. But to be the only white kids: I don’t think that would have been fair to them.
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I was possessing heroin in fairly large quantities in New York City during the years of the draconian Rockefeller Drug Laws. Had I been busted, I would have faced mandatory life in prison. I don’t think many white kids walked, either. I knew one who got 15 years for pot.
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