I think Hillary Clinton will make a fine president, and (most important) I am comfortable with her making gigantic, momentous decisions.
GENE WEINGARTENWe want to believe that the world is understandable and controllable and unthreatening, that if we follow the rules, we’ll be okay.
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Making stuff up is the worst thing a journalist can do. Plagiarizing is the second worst.
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I very much believe in the Intentional Fallacy. If Donald Trump lies and dopes and bumbles and staggers his way into peace in the middle east, he gets credit for it. He owns it.
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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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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.
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Politics is how you think about life itself.
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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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Donald Trump is a boor, and cannot stop being a boor.
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The people who are voting for Trump are not voting rationally.
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One thing I am learning from the kitten is that everything he is doing seems to be in preparation for murder.
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When my daughter was a senior in high school, I remember noticing, almost in passing, that her friends were very cute. Which made me realize her friends’ fathers probably found Molly very cute.
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It is not a coincidence that Donald Trump has attracted white supremacists.
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I 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.
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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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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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