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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.

Gene Weingarten

When my daughter was a senior in high school, I remember noticing, almost in passing, that her friends were very cute. Which made me realize her friends’ fathers probably found Molly very cute.
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Cute Daughter Senior
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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Beliefs Ethnicity Race
Trump cannot change because in his mind, he has ALWAYS been rewarded for his boorish, stupid, arrogant behavior.
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Arrogant Mind Stupid
I think there are a good many Donald Trump voters who are sick of government as it is practiced in America and genuinely want to blow up the system and see what happens. They are stupid – or at least unwise – but not necessarily racist.
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Blow Stupid Thinking
Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.
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People Splendid Vulgarian
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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Atheist Hate Sorry
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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Books Doctors Kings
When Trump says fake news, he means journalism that makes points with which he disagrees, usually about him.
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Fake Mean News
I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.
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Agony Reality Thinking
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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Kitten Murder Preparation
I don’t consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.
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Clinton Evil Two
America is an incredibly polarized country politically. I think ANY Republican would start out with 42 percent of the vote.
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America Country Thinking
Hillary Clinton rubs people the wrong way, for valid reasons.
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People Reason Way
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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Constitution Court House Supreme
It’s as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots.
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Order Sides Steak
Donald Trump is way worse than George W. Bush. George W. Bush is a fundamentally decent man of limited intelligence who surrounded himself with awful people who dragged him in terrible directions. He was a bad president.
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Men People Thinking

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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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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