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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.

Gene Weingarten

Hillary Clinton rubs people the wrong way, for valid reasons.
GENE WEINGARTEN

People Reason Way
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.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Category Deal Happens Terrifying
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
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
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.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Books Doctors Kings
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 WEINGARTEN

Giving Phones Talking
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
The people who are voting for Trump are not voting rationally.
GENE WEINGARTEN

People Trump Voting
I think I might prefer women without makeup. Though I don’t really know, because I am not good at identifying makeup.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Eye Girl Good Makeup Women
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.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Drug Kids Thinking
I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Agony Reality Thinking
The odd thing is that Trump’s hand movements don’t seem to coordinate with the topic at hand. Most pols manage to make their hand movements correspond with the message, so a slash will accompany emphasis, etc.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Eye Make Movements Moving Notable
From the inside, creativity seems like an arduous task, often involving plebeian, imperfect choices, driven less by inspiration than by deadline.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Arduous Choices Inside Involving
I don’t see a point in advertising my marital status when men don’t. Completely ridiculous.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Advertising Men Ridiculous
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.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Beliefs Ethnicity Race
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 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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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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