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Making stuff up is the worst thing a journalist can do. Plagiarizing is the second worst.

Gene Weingarten

International politics is not my strong suit. The older I get the less certain I am that I even HAVE a strong suit.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Certain Strong Suits
One thing I am learning from the kitten is that everything he is doing seems to be in preparation for murder.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Kitten Murder Preparation
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.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Books Doctors Kings
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.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Believe Dope Lying
Many put him in the second tier, below the big three and surrounded by Truman and Eisenhower. Kennedy moved our soul. Changed our thinking about service and governance. And won big in the greatest nuclear crisis of the Cold War.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Change Greatest Many Won
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.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Atheist Hate Sorry
Donald Trump is an awful loser.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Awful Loser Trump
The intelligent Trump supporter will be someone who is so cynical about politics that he wants the world blown up, and doesn’t care if the person doing the blowing up is an obnoxious, infantile vulgarian. I don’t know where to find these people. Do you?
GENE WEINGARTEN

Cynical Intelligent People
Making stuff up is the worst thing a journalist can do. Plagiarizing is the second worst.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Journalist Stuff Worst
Donald Trump’s humor is hostile to a fault.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Faults Hostile Trump
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.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Constitution Court House Supreme
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.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Beliefs Ethnicity Race
America is an incredibly polarized country politically. I think ANY Republican would start out with 42 percent of the vote.
GENE WEINGARTEN

America Country Thinking
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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Believe Monster People
I don’t consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.
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Clinton Evil Two
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

Drug Kids Thinking

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