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Scott Simon (born March 16, 1952) is an American journalist and the host of Weekend Edition Saturday on NPR.

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Everyone understood [Charlie Hebdo], as people had understood for hundreds of years, knowing that Rabelaisian tradition of French satire, they knew how to read it. And they understood the kind of release from piety that it represented every week.

Charlie Hebdo, Knowing, People, Week, Years

Charlie Hebdo mocked everyone. They mocked the left. They mocked the right. They mocked, above all, the extreme right, the extreme right of Le Pen's. If anything could identify their politics, they were kinds of anarchists.

Anarchist, Charlie, Charlie Hebdo, Identify, Kind, Kinds

As the race for president tightens, Hillary Clinton's campaign hopes to win over millions of people who voted for Bernie Sanders in the primaries.

People, President, Race, Sanders, Win, Winning

Charlie Hebdo was and is not The Onion or "The Daily Show. " This is a different kind of satire. Might I put it this way - less politically correct.

Charlie Hebdo, Different, Hebdo, Kind, Onions, Satire

So: this is where we are going to become parents. You walk into the building as a couple, and leave a few minutes later as a family. You walk in recollecting long romantic dinners, nights at the theater, and care-free vacations. You leave worrying about where to get diapers, milk, and Cheerios.

Building, Cheerios, Couple, Family, Night, Vacation

One of the reasons we think this market will start to run out of gas at some point is that you've essentially created as much gold from straw as you can from this financial alchemy

Financial, Gas, Gold, Reasons, Running, Thinking

In journalism, when we want to get a story over the jumps, we refer to it as a universal experience, but it almost never is. There is one universal experience, that's death. That is something we are all going to experience at some distance in the lives of loved ones, strangers and friends, people around us and certainly our own.

Death, Distance, Lives, Ones, People, Strangers And Friends

Bernie Sanders lost the Democratic presidential nomination to Hillary Clinton, but he won more than 12 million votes in the primaries and was respectfully and elaborately saluted by Hillary Clinton, whom he has endorsed.

Bernie, Hillary, Nominations, Presidential, Respectfully, Vote

Reading will put you into the minds and hearts of others. It might help you understand why other people do what they do sometimes.

Heart, Minds, People, Reading

It's not the cost (although that pinches), or the time (though that grinds). After a while, it's the sheer galling indignity of being asked to prove, pay, and prove all over again that you're a worthy parent. Any true parent will tell you that that is impossible to prove in advance.

Asked, Cost, Galling, Parent, Pay, Prove

Fidel Castro takes up so much space in the Cuban mind. It's hard for us to imagine as Americans - isn't it? - how much of everyday conversation he's dominated for 50 years.

Americans, Everyday, Space, Takes, Years

I take Charb's point, but at some point has Charlie Hebdo been trying to have it both ways because some of what they do is not funny.

Charlie, Charlie Hebdo, Hebdo, Take, Trying, Way

When they mention great little things in life, they usually forget flossing.

Forget, Little Things, Littles, Mention, Things, Things In Life

Janis Joplin didn't just sing a song, she took it over. She swallowed it whole, then sent it back through her gut and her heart.

Guts, Heart, Joplin, Song, Took, Whole

Adoption is rewarding. But the process, as we have already detailed in some particulars, can be expensive, exhausting, and hard to sustain on a dream, much less a whim.

Adoption, Dream, Hard, Process

Fidel Castro rhetorically championed the poor. He also held the Cuban economy in a kind of arrested state. He called for racial equality but often cracked down - but did crack down on the press and dissidents and Cuban gays.

Castro, Cracks, Fidel, Gay, Kind, Rhetorically

I became a pedant of the form. I did my graduate work in art history and particularly in the history of French satirical cartooning. And that made me aware of what a rich and resilient tradition this seemingly scabrous sacrilegious magazine still represented in French life.

Art, Magazine, Magazines, Pedants, Satirical, Seemingly

Charlie Hebdo were the licensed anarchist clowns of the society.

Anarchist, Charlie, Charlie Hebdo, Clown, Licensed, Society

In the wake of the deaths of the satirists, Je suis Charlie, I am Charlie, became a slogan of solidarity for free expression around the world.

Became, Expression, Satirists, Solidarity, Suis, World

I've always been passionate about what I do and want to do it well,. . . My wife says she's a widow to the computer.

Computer, Passionate, Says, Widows, Wife

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