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Making stuff up is the worst thing a journalist can do. Plagiarizing is the second worst.

Gene Weingarten

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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Atheist Hate Sorry
My neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.
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Black Local Middle School
I think Trump is simply inept, incapable of rescuing himself.
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Incapable Thinking Trump
You know, I am not a particular Kennedy apologist or an awed fan – I was 12 when he was murdered – but I have discussed Kennedy with historians. For his incredibly short tenure, he was a very important president.
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Soul Thinking War
It is not a coincidence that Donald Trump has attracted white supremacists.
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Coincidence Trump White
We 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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Believe Monster People
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.
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Eye Make Movements Moving Notable
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?
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Cynical Intelligent People
I think politics is everything.
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Everything Politics Thinking
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.
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Dictator Popularity Thinking
The people who are voting for Trump are not voting rationally.
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People Trump Voting
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
Donald Trump is a boor, and cannot stop being a boor.
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Country People Trump
I don’t consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.
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Clinton Evil Two
Making stuff up is the worst thing a journalist can do. Plagiarizing is the second worst.
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Journalist Stuff Worst
Politics is how you think about life itself.
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Itself Politics Thinking

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