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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

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.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Cute Daughter Senior
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.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Believe Dope Lying
My neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Black Local Middle School
I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Agony Reality 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
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
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
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 think Trump wants to be dictator. I don’t think the courts will allow him to be, and I think that after months of revolting sycophancy, neither will Congress. He will sink to such a popularity trough that even those spineless, craven gophers will cave.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Dictator Popularity Thinking
Donald Trump is a boor, and cannot stop being a boor.
GENE WEINGARTEN

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

Order Sides Steak
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
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.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Atheist Hate Sorry
I think there are a good many Donald Trump voters who are sick of government as it is practiced in America and genuinely want to blow up the system and see what happens. They are stupid – or at least unwise – but not necessarily racist.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Blow Stupid Thinking
I think Marco Rubio could never have recovered from revealing himself to be pathetic.
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Marcos Revealing Thinking
I don’t consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Clinton Evil Two

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