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Gene Weingarten

Gene Norman Weingarten (born October 2, 1951) is an American syndicated humor columnist at The Washington Post. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and is the only person to win the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing twice. Weingarten is known for both his serious and humorous work. Weingarten's column, "Below the Beltway," is published weekly in The Washington Post magazine and syndicated nationally by The Washington Post Writers Group, which also syndicates Barney & Clyde, a comic strip he co-authors with his son, Dan Weingarten, with illustrations by David Clark.

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Being both stupid and ignorant is an accomplishment.

Accomplishment, Ignorant, Stupid

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

Certain, Older, Politics, Strong, Suit, Suits

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.

Believe, Ethnicity, Issue, Issues, Race, Speech

That is my theory to explain the I don't knows. It's human.

Explain, Human, Humans, Knows, Theory

We separated like oil and water. In the cafeteria, you'd see a table of black jocks, table of white jocks, table of rich white kids, table of Hispanic kids, table of Chinese kids, table of druggies, table of chatterboxes, and so on. Wait! There's a diverse table over there! With a few kids of different tenacities and economic status! Oh, that's the nerds. That's where I sat. We weren't cool enough for the other tables, so we didn't discriminate against anybody.

Different, Kids, Tables, Waiting, Water, White

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.

Care, Democracy, Kuwait, Sane, Secular, Support

One thing I am learning from the kitten is that everything he is doing seems to be in preparation for murder.

Kitten, Murder, Preparation, Thing

I read a lot of conservatives. They are thoughtful and intelligent and annoying, and I always read them because they have viewpoints that challenge my own, even thought they are wrong. 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.

Conservatives, Hate, Intelligent, Sophisticated, Thoughtful

The horrifying thing is that nearly half of America seems in synch with xenophobia and race-baiting.

America, Half, Race, Synch, Xenophobia

I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.

Agony, Reality, Spare, Thinking

I don't think I could ever love someone with whom I fundamentally disagreed, politically.

Disagreed, Love, Love Someone, Politically, Think, Thinking

Johnny Hart became much less funny after he found sobriety, and religion, around the same time.

Found, Funny, Hart, Johnny, Religion, Sobriety

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

Arrogant, Change, Mind, Stupid

I do not believe in public shaming. I do believe that young adults go to college to learn things, and that this process will almost inevitably result in their making mistakes and misjudgments and otherwise acting badly.

Believe, College, Making, Mistake, Public, Result

I have been called the antichrist, though, by Nazis.

Antichrist, Has Beens, Nazi, Nazis, Though

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.

Attach, Cause, Disease, Exercise, Hurt, Suicide

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

People, Reason, Rubs, Way, Wrong

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.

Consigning, Firsts, Idiot, Mere, Regarded, Rhyming

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.

Dictator, Gophers, Months, Popularity, Thinking, Trump

I always thought there was some cleverness to the joke diet in which you could eat as much as you want and as often as you want, but everything must be consumed naked in front of a full-length mirror. That would deter me!

Eat, Mirror, Mirrors, Naked, Thought, Want

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