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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.

Gene Weingarten

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
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
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.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Contemptuous Sophisticated Vulgar
I don’t see a point in advertising my marital status when men don’t. Completely ridiculous.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Advertising Men Ridiculous
You know, I am not a particular Kennedy apologist or an awed fan – I was 12 when he was murdered – but I have discussed Kennedy with historians. For his incredibly short tenure, he was a very important president.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Soul Thinking War
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.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Kids Minority School
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.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Important People Use
I think I might prefer women without makeup. Though I don’t really know, because I am not good at identifying makeup.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Eye Girl Good Makeup Women
The 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 WEINGARTEN

One Thing Thinking Writing
Donald Trump is an awful loser.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Awful Loser Trump
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.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Believe Monster People
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.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Eye Make Movements Moving Notable
The people who are voting for Trump are not voting rationally.
GENE WEINGARTEN

People Trump Voting
You 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 WEINGARTEN

Care Democracy Support
The verb “Garland” should be created. It would mean to unfairly put a stinking albatross around someone’s neck, to make him unemployable.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Albatross Mean Verbs

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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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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