Editorials are editorials. They a supposed to have an opinion, even a very strong one. Gene Weingarten More Quotes by Gene Weingarten More Quotes From Gene Weingarten I don't think the people of Chicago should be robbed of their birthright to be perennial losers. Gene Weingarten chicagopeoplethinking I think we are all exhausted by, and sick of, Donald Trump. Gene Weingarten exhaustedsickthinking I would you say 25-50 percent is the likelihood that my cause of death will be suicide. Not because I am depressive but because I don't attach any moral baggage to suicide, and I have no religion to hold me back. I think suicide is our right, though I think we need to exercise it with knowledge that it can hurt others. So my assumption is that if I got a fatal disease, I'd end things before I got really sick. Gene Weingarten suicidehurtexercise 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. He or she can be anyone. I'm not sure if James Madison really intended that, or if the wording was accidentally imprecise, but the Constitution, as a recall, simply says that the House shall chuse a speaker. Gene Weingarten supreme-courtconstitutionhouse It is hard to quantify the value of name recognition, but Donald Trump has gone from fame to international mega-fame. That has to be gargantuan when your business is your name. Gene Weingarten recognitiongonenames On Twitter, people like me regularly get called "sore losers" by Trumpeters. It just makes me roll my eyes. This is not about winning and losing. We all lost, even them, they just don't know it yet. Gene Weingarten eyewinningpeople Hillary Clinton was a cute, smart chick in the 1960s. Gene Weingarten clintonsmartcute I don't consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils. Gene Weingarten clintoneviltwo I think Hillary Clinton will make a fine president, and (most important) I am comfortable with her making gigantic, momentous decisions. Gene Weingarten importantdecisionthinking I am deebly self-conscious, and bad. Gene Weingarten self-consciousconsciousself Reporters are not merely recording devices that take down what people say and repeat it in print; we are expected to use our knowledge and experience both for triage - deciding what's important to cover and what isn't - and for contextualizing, analyzing and such. Gene Weingarten importantusepeople Rhyme is cool again. It's because of hip-hop. Bless you, hip-hop. Gene Weingarten blesshipship-hop I personally favor old mechanical watches, but my snobbery does not extend to demanding that all people wear them. My snobbery demands that no one wear a digital. Gene Weingarten people Ever since roughly 1890, when snot poets first decided that rhyme was confining and unnecessary, every idiot with a pen fancied hisself a poet. The mere act of rhyming was suddenly regarded as a quaint, mannered, and uncool atavism, consigning doggerelists like me to the trash bin of literary history. Gene Weingarten rhymingidiotfirsts 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 drugkidsthinking I believe men's faces come in two kinds: Faces that need a blade, and faces that need an electric. I never was happy with an electric. I became pizzaneck. Gene Weingarten electrickindbelieve I don't hold doors for women. I'm not sure I really differentiate between men and women, in my door-related activities. Do women really care about this issue? Gene Weingarten men-and-womencaremen If I lived where I live right now, and my kids were in middle school, they would be the only white kids in the school. That is not a burden I wanted to place on them. 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 kidsschoolthinking First, in a love song, or any song for that matter, using a plastic word like "inhibitions" is just completely without feel or texture. It demonstrates a tin ear for communication. Gene Weingarten inhibitionscommunicationsong Donald Trump is way worse than George W. Bush. George W. Bush is a fundamentally decent man of limited intelligence who surrounded himself with awful people who dragged him in terrible directions. He was a bad president. But he was not actively malign, in the sense that he did what he thought was right. I don't think this guy cares what's right. I think he's in it for self-aggrandizement, for profit, and for power. Gene Weingarten menpeoplethinking
