Gene Weingarten

...of New York. early submissions: Hi You know how you always start with the "question for the day"? Any chance you could work it a la Gene Weingarten and before the chat post that question? He did it the night before which I know is early,...

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...with his fists. The paper's top editor, Marcus Brauchli, was among those who broke up the quite serious scrum. Last week, Gene Weingarten, the Post's humor columnist, weighed in, writing: "Hooray. " In these days of fiscal worry and...

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WaPo's Gene Weingarten On Fisticuff-Spawning Passions: "Hooray!" Washington Post writer Gene Weingarten took the time at the end of his "Chatalogical Humor" chat yesterday to weigh in on the recent newsroom dust-up between Henry Allen and...

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...journalism, the feisty geezer defending the integrity of the profession and knocking out gimmicky infotainment. Post columnist Gene Weingarten hailed the brawl as a heroic stand for journalism with a pulse: "Hooray that there is still...

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...whole "journalism" thing nailed, nothing about The Onion is funny except the actual words, and "Twenty ten" means you're gay. Gene Weingarten's nomination for Worst WaPo Styles Piece of All Time: This thing. "The Light and the Labyrinth."

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...identifiable person, therefore I am the only person capable of being insulted or mistreated. Seriously. Gene Weingarten: Noted! Gene Weingarten: Soupy was not a genius, but Soupy was delightfully subversive. He never did any of the truly...

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...writenow.com, thewritestuff.com -- every pun and cliche in the book. And discovered: all of them were taken. My friend Gene Weingarten suggested tomthebutcher.com, which was both catchy and apparently available, but possibly...

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...join such favorites as Date Lab; restaurant reviews from The Post's food critic Tom Sietsema; Below the Beltway musings from Gene Weingarten; profiles of Washingtonians in First Person Singular; Second Glance; and other puzzles. The...

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...Richard Nixon believed that he was facing a "Jew-homo-doper-Commie-shrink-lefty-pope" conspiracy, as Washington Post writer Gene Weingarten put it in a gloriously deadpan article in 2002. But that is just plain wrong. As subsequent...

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...to criticism, the sort of criticism I might get for cynically using the concept of a deity that I don't really believe in as a cheap construct around which to base a column. Gene Weingarten can be reached at weingarten@washpost.com.

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