Making stuff up is the worst thing a journalist can do. Plagiarizing is the second worst.
GENE WEINGARTENI 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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It’s as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots.
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I feel like no matter what happens in my career endeavors after today, going to grad school is one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.
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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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The people who are voting for Trump are not voting rationally.
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My neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.
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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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I don’t see a point in advertising my marital status when men don’t. Completely ridiculous.
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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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I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.
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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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I believe that sensitivity to issues of race and ethnicity is important, and nuanced, even more so when it intersects with the issue of free speech.
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It is not a coincidence that Donald Trump has attracted white supremacists.
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Donald Trump’s humor is hostile to a fault.
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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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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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