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.
GENE WEINGARTENI 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.
GENE WEINGARTENI think Marco Rubio could never have recovered from revealing himself to be pathetic.
GENE WEINGARTENWhen Trump says fake news, he means journalism that makes points with which he disagrees, usually about him.
GENE WEINGARTENIt 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.
GENE WEINGARTENPolitics is how you think about life itself.
GENE WEINGARTENI feel like no matter what happens in my career endeavors after today, going to grad school is one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.
GENE WEINGARTENMany 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 WEINGARTENOne 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 WEINGARTENTrump cannot change because in his mind, he has ALWAYS been rewarded for his boorish, stupid, arrogant behavior.
GENE WEINGARTENI don’t consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.
GENE WEINGARTENOne thing I am learning from the kitten is that everything he is doing seems to be in preparation for murder.
GENE WEINGARTENInternational politics is not my strong suit. The older I get the less certain I am that I even HAVE a strong suit.
GENE WEINGARTENIt is not a coincidence that Donald Trump has attracted white supremacists.
GENE WEINGARTENThe verb “Garland” should be created. It would mean to unfairly put a stinking albatross around someone’s neck, to make him unemployable.
GENE WEINGARTENI 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 WEINGARTENSo, 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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