Gene Weingarten

The Reich Stuff Friends, we are gathered here together to mourn the death of Godwin’s Law, the wry, venerated staple of modern-world wisdom, which is summarized thus:

They threw down the gauntlet. We need to take it up.

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The Fourteen Points: Words Smart People Misuse Hello.

Take the quiz.
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I changed it!

I deliberately avoided the osculation cliche! I think "adoration" might have been better than adulation, though.

It's Fawning In America. Many great figures in history leave slogans by which they are known.

The Man Who Cannot Laugh at Himself.
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The Invitational Week 153: Can You Just Imagine? Tell us some events that 'happened' next year. Plus funny poems about other poems.

Poems about poems. These results are extraordinary.
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This is delicious.

This Is Completely Insane. (No, Really.) Two dramatic, related things occurred overnight.

I repeat: This is the only story in America, period.
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This is elegantly succinct.

Exactly right.

Deathly Prose : I killed someone yesterday.

He had to die. I am sorry.

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Excellent.

I Didn't Write This. Please Read It. I first met Peter Richmond in the mid-1980s, when I was the editor of Tropic magazine, the Sunday magazine of The Miami Herald.

Repeating the headline: I didn't write this. Please read it.

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I saw that. It is nothing like what the person you re-tweeted said it was. Ultimately, it's saying "comply. now." Everything in quotes was wrong.

Hey, onefine. Can you show me this editorial? I can find nothing like that. Link?

Scoop: U.S. America Treaty to End War of Ukrainian Agression On Russia Is for You Now to Read Here The Gene Pool has just now exclusively obtained the first page of the draft copy of the proposed tripartite U.S.-engineered peace accord aimed at ending the nearly four-year-old war between Russia and...

Is For You. Is to Read Now.
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Okay, no problem. Social media. It happens.

Uh, I can find no Wapo editorial with this quote or this intemperate, insane thought. Please cite.

A Hiccup of Memory Welcome to the Weekend Gene Pool, where I entertain you and in return, you send me humiliating personal anecdotes on a subject of my choosing.

This is one of my most interesting columns. It happened by accident.
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The Madness of King Gorge Currently starved of his delusion that he is still adored and respected by the masses and still impervious to legislative and judicial control, Donald Trump — fearful and, as always, angry — has been ...

He EATS hate. Then poops it out. So did others before him.

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Ross Douthat: "Can right-wing post-liberalism, variously associated with nationalists and populists, Catholic integralists and Nietzschean vitalists, Trumpist think tanks and JD Vance, be held responsible for Groyperism or any other toxic tendency on the contemporary right." ZZZZZZZZZZZ.

Well, This Thing Happened. Behold the shortest Gene Pool ever.

Take the poll. It's short!

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Eat It. Let’s take a break today from presidential politics, from political perfidy, from pedophilia. Let’s find a safe space, just for a day.

Appointing RFK Jr. secretary of HHS is like appointing, as Transportation Secretary, some person who only travels by pogo stick.
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The Epstein-Bare Syndrome* Yesterday, Donald Trump reversed his month’s-long stonewalling and — faced with certain legislative defeat on the issue — said that he thinks Congress should vote to release the Epstein files because ...

It's like a disease, with Trump.

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Christopher Walken is Jon Voight. Pass it on.

The Teapot Noem® Affair Welcome to the Weekend Gene Pool. You know the drill.

Share this at your own risk.

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Every Reporter's Nightmare Today I am going to tell you about a dream I just had.

A must read for anyone who is, or dreams of being, a journalist.

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His Schmuckiest, Most Unbalanced Idea Ever. (So Far.) Let us consider, for a moment, the latest bit of senile megalomaniacal lunacy to issue from the offices of the president of the United States.

“The president’s gone mad.” “Where?” “Downtown.” “When?” “Last night” “Hmm, say, that’s too bad!

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Here's the latest headline on the homepage of The Washington Post, the newspaper that feels copy editors are mostly inessential: "These coffee shops prided their role as community hubs. Then tariffs hit."

"Anne Frank’s Story Retold as an Intersectional, Multiethnic, Genderqueer, Decolonized, Anti-capitalist, Hyper-empowering Afro-Latin Hip-hop Musical" Hello.

Anne Frank as covered by Frank Zappa.
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