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 WEINGARTENMy neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.
More Gene Weingarten Quotes
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International politics is not my strong suit. The older I get the less certain I am that I even HAVE a strong suit.
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I think Marco Rubio could never have recovered from revealing himself to be pathetic.
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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.
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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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Trump cannot change because in his mind, he has ALWAYS been rewarded for his boorish, stupid, arrogant behavior.
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It is not a coincidence that Donald Trump has attracted white supremacists.
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America is an incredibly polarized country politically. I think ANY Republican would start out with 42 percent of the vote.
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Making stuff up is the worst thing a journalist can do. Plagiarizing is the second worst.
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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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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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I don’t consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.
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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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Being “Jewish” is way stronger culturally than it is religiously.
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Donald Trump is way worse than George W. Bush. George W. Bush is a fundamentally decent man of limited intelligence who surrounded himself with awful people who dragged him in terrible directions. He was a bad president.
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I 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.
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