Gene Weingarten Quotes
While it is true that many hep C victims became infected through blood transfusions or organ transplants or in other innocent ways, mine was contracted during my college years, when I showed as much care for my personal health as your average suicide bomber.
Weingarten, Gene. I'm Here to Ruin the Fun: Selected Columns. Simon & Schuster, 2007.
The relationship of drinking to industrial accident was well known at the beginning of the century. Automobiles had not yet become plentiful enough for people to focus on drunken driving.
There were no easy cures for these venereal diseases then. The War Department (What it was called in those days.) used patriotism to encourage celibacy.
His antigovernment views were so extreme that he even opposed having the government control poisonous and other dangerous consumer products and instead leave it to the free market where the consumer would have to make safety decisions often without information or worse with deceptively false information.
Those were not the facts at all. A substantial number of people who get AIDS, did so from unprotected sex—especially women. By promulgating false and dangerous health information like this, doubtless some people believed him and did not protect themselves to their everlasting regret.
Gene Norman Weingarten is an American syndicated humor columnist at The Washington Post. He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. Weingarten is known for both his serious and humorous work. Weingarten's column, "Below the Beltway," is published weekly in The Washington Post magazine and syndicated nationally by The Washington Post Writers Group, which also syndicates Barney & Clyde, a comic strip he co-authors with his son, Dan Weingarten, with illustrations by David Clark.
