It is a cliche, and it is also true, that humor springs from existential pain - from a need to blunt the awareness that life is essentially a fatal disease of unpredictable symptoms and unknown duration.
Well, let’s start with the maxim that the best writing is understated, meaning it’s not full of flourishes and semaphores and tap dancing and vocabul… - Gene Weingarten
Well, let’s start with the maxim that the best writing is understated, meaning it’s not full of flourishes and semaphores and tap dancing and vocabul…
- Gene Weingarten
America is an incredibly polarized country politically. I think ANY Republican would start out with 42 percent of the vote. - Gene Weingarten
America is an incredibly polarized country politically. I think ANY Republican would start out with 42 percent of the vote.
Knowing the identity of the leaker helps you analyze the likelihood that the material is real. - Gene Weingarten
Knowing the identity of the leaker helps you analyze the likelihood that the material is real.
Every single fat comic uses his weight as a punchline. There is something sad about that. - Gene Weingarten
Every single fat comic uses his weight as a punchline. There is something sad about that.
We want to believe that the world is understandable and controllable and unthreatening, that if we follow the rules, we'll be okay. So, when this kin… - Gene Weingarten
We want to believe that the world is understandable and controllable and unthreatening, that if we follow the rules, we'll be okay. So, when this kin…
Hillary Clinton rubs people the wrong way, for valid reasons. - Gene Weingarten
Hillary Clinton rubs people the wrong way, for valid reasons.
Politics is how you think about life itself. - Gene Weingarten
Politics is how you think about life itself.
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 … - Gene Weingarten
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 …
One thing I am learning from the kitten is that everything he is doing seems to be in preparation for murder. - Gene Weingarten
One thing I am learning from the kitten is that everything he is doing seems to be in preparation for murder.
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