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By Steve Huff 9/20/10 4:14pm

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The English Language is Dead But We’ll Soldier On

WaPo columnist Gene Weingarten trotted out the “English is dead” meme on Sunday and he targeted newspapers to support his thesis. He ended up making a pretty good point; but it may have more to do with small budgets that don’t permit copy editors or even editors in general. Still, his litany Read More

By Zeke Turner 7/01/10 1:52pm

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Gene Weingarten, the Man and the Machine, ‘Gobbled’ Crystal Meth at Age 12

Washington Post funny man and two-time Pulitzer winner Gene Weingarten answered questions over e-mail for Mother Jones‘s Michael Mechanic. They discussed Mr. Weingarten’s methods, his childhood in the Bronx and the relationship between laughter and anxiety.

On learning to be funny growing up in the Bronx:

I was small and weak and Jewish Read More

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