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The total wall is between editorial and newsroom. And unbreachable barrier. For good reason. It doesn't mean the two sides don't talk.

Gene Weingarten

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Gene Weingarten
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 2
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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.
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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.
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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!
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I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.
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International politics is not my strong suit. The older I get the less certain I am that I even HAVE a strong suit.
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Rhyme is cool again. It's because of hip-hop. Bless you, hip-hop.
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