If I lived where I live right now, and my kids were in middle school, they would be the only white kids in the school. That is not a burden I wanted to place on them. My preference would have been a school that was totally diverse - half and half, or close. I wouldn't have hesitated at all if they would have been in the racial minority. But to be the only white kids: I don't think that would have been fair to them.
Gene WeingartenMaking stuff up is the worst thing a journalist can do. Plagiarizing is the second worst.
Gene WeingartenI think Marco Rubio could never have recovered from revealing himself to be pathetic.
Gene WeingartenI think I might prefer women without makeup. Though I don't really know, because I am not good at identifying makeup. I once wrote in the chat, a long time ago, that my wife wore no mascara. She later informed me dryly that she has worn mascara every day that I ever knew her. Or maybe eye liner. I forget. Which is the one you always wear, girls.
Gene WeingartenI don't think I could ever love someone with whom I fundamentally disagreed, politically.
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