On Twitter, people like me regularly get called “sore losers” by Trumpeters. It just makes me roll my eyes. This is not about winning and losing. We all lost, even them, they just don’t know it yet.
GENE WEINGARTENOn Twitter, people like me regularly get called “sore losers” by Trumpeters. It just makes me roll my eyes. This is not about winning and losing. We all lost, even them, they just don’t know it yet.
GENE WEINGARTENI think Hillary Clinton will make a fine president, and (most important) I am comfortable with her making gigantic, momentous decisions.
GENE WEINGARTENAmerica is an incredibly polarized country politically. I think ANY Republican would start out with 42 percent of the vote.
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 WEINGARTENI believe the publisher is a member of the editorial board, and I think his vote would matter.
GENE WEINGARTENDonald Trump is an awful loser.
GENE WEINGARTENFrom the inside, creativity seems like an arduous task, often involving plebeian, imperfect choices, driven less by inspiration than by deadline.
GENE WEINGARTENYou should support Israel not because it is Jewish but because it is a sane, secular democracy. You want Lebanon to be at peace. You don’t care much about Kuwait.
GENE WEINGARTENHillary Clinton rubs people the wrong way, for valid reasons.
GENE WEINGARTENMaking stuff up is the worst thing a journalist can do. Plagiarizing is the second worst.
GENE WEINGARTENI 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 WEINGARTENI 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 WEINGARTENThe one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it’s hard. If you think it’s not hard, you’re not doing it right.
GENE WEINGARTENThe people who are voting for Trump are not voting rationally.
GENE WEINGARTENIt is not a coincidence that Donald Trump has attracted white supremacists.
GENE WEINGARTENMy neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.
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