One thing I am learning from the kitten is that everything he is doing seems to be in preparation for murder.
GENE WEINGARTENOne thing I am learning from the kitten is that everything he is doing seems to be in preparation for murder.
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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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Trump cannot change because in his mind, he has ALWAYS been rewarded for his boorish, stupid, arrogant behavior.
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I believe the publisher is a member of the editorial board, and I think his vote would matter.
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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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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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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?
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I think Hillary Clinton will make a fine president, and (most important) I am comfortable with her making gigantic, momentous decisions.
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Donald Trump’s humor is hostile to a fault.
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But this does me no good because, being intelligent and sophisticated human beings, they are all contemptuous of Trump. They hate him. They find him…vulgar.
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Hillary Clinton rubs people the wrong way, for valid reasons.
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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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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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When Trump says fake news, he means journalism that makes points with which he disagrees, usually about him.
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Politics is how you think about life itself.
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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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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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Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.
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I think Trump is simply inept, incapable of rescuing himself.
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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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I once found myself driving, smoking a cigar, taking notes, and talking on the phone at the same time. I only became completely aware of this when I had to shift, and realized something had to give.
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The people who are voting for Trump are not voting rationally.
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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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So, when this kind of thing happens to other people, we need to put them in a different category from us. We don’t want to resemble them, and the fact that we might is too terrifying to deal with. So, they have to be monsters.
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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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