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Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.

Gene Weingarten

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
When Trump says fake news, he means journalism that makes points with which he disagrees, usually about him.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Fake Mean News
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
I believe the publisher is a member of the editorial board, and I think his vote would matter.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Believe Matter Thinking
Politics is how you think about life itself.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Itself Politics Thinking
Donald Trump is an awful loser.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Awful Loser Trump
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
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.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Constitution Court House Supreme
International politics is not my strong suit. The older I get the less certain I am that I even HAVE a strong suit.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Certain Strong Suits
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

Category Deal Happens Terrifying
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
It is not a coincidence that Donald Trump has attracted white supremacists.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Coincidence Trump White
I think Trump is simply inept, incapable of rescuing himself.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Incapable Thinking Trump
It’s as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Order Sides Steak
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

Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.

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