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I don’t see a point in advertising my marital status when men don’t. Completely ridiculous.

Gene Weingarten

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.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Constitution Court House Supreme
I think Marco Rubio could never have recovered from revealing himself to be pathetic.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Marcos Revealing Thinking
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
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
My preference would have been a school that was totally diverse – half and half, or close. I wouldn’t have hesitated at all if they would have been in the racial minority. But to be the only white kids: I don’t think that would have been fair to them.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Kids Minority School
International politics is not my strong suit. The older I get the less certain I am that I even HAVE a strong suit.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Certain Strong Suits
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
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
It’s as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Order Sides Steak
But this does me no good because, being intelligent and sophisticated human beings, they are all contemptuous of Trump. They hate him. They find him…vulgar.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Contemptuous Sophisticated Vulgar
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
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.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Care Democracy Support
Donald Trump is a boor, and cannot stop being a boor.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Country People Trump
Trump cannot change because in his mind, he has ALWAYS been rewarded for his boorish, stupid, arrogant behavior.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Arrogant Mind Stupid
The people who are voting for Trump are not voting rationally.
GENE WEINGARTEN

People Trump Voting
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

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