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My neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.

Gene Weingarten

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.
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Constitution Court House Supreme
Politics is how you think about life itself.
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Itself Politics Thinking
From the inside, creativity seems like an arduous task, often involving plebeian, imperfect choices, driven less by inspiration than by deadline.
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Arduous Choices Inside Involving
I think I might prefer women without makeup. Though I don’t really know, because I am not good at identifying makeup.
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Eye Girl Good Makeup Women
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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Category Deal Happens Terrifying
I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.
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Agony Reality Thinking
I think politics is everything.
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Everything Politics Thinking
Making stuff up is the worst thing a journalist can do. Plagiarizing is the second worst.
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Journalist Stuff Worst
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.
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Important People Use
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.
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Care Democracy Support
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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Men People Thinking
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?
GENE WEINGARTEN

Cynical Intelligent People
The people who are voting for Trump are not voting rationally.
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People Trump Voting
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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Books Doctors Kings
I think Hillary Clinton will make a fine president, and (most important) I am comfortable with her making gigantic, momentous decisions.
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Decision Important Thinking
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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Drug Kids Thinking

My neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.

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