My neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.
GENE WEINGARTENDonald Trump’s humor is hostile to a fault.
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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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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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The odd thing is that Trump’s hand movements don’t seem to coordinate with the topic at hand. Most pols manage to make their hand movements correspond with the message, so a slash will accompany emphasis, etc.
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Being “Jewish” is way stronger culturally than it is religiously.
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I think Marco Rubio could never have recovered from revealing himself to be pathetic.
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I think I might prefer women without makeup. Though I don’t really know, because I am not good at identifying makeup.
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Reporters are not merely recording devices that take down what people say and repeat it in print; we are expected to use our knowledge and experience both for triage – deciding what’s important to cover and what isn’t – and for contextualizing, analyzing and such.
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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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Donald Trump is an awful loser.
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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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I think Trump wants to be dictator. I don’t think the courts will allow him to be, and I think that after months of revolting sycophancy, neither will Congress. He will sink to such a popularity trough that even those spineless, craven gophers will cave.
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Politics is how you think about life itself.
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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 don’t consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.
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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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