Imagine the talented love-child of Andr Previn and Lucille Ball. — Scott Simon Balls Copy Share Image
I know end might be near as this is only day of my adulthood I’ve seen my mother and she hasn’t asked,… — Scott Simon Adulthood Copy Share Image
Senator Sanders, of course, has campaigned for Hillary Clinton. But what about his legions of supporters? — Scott Simon Clinton Copy Share Image
I've always been passionate about what I do and want to do it well, ... My wife says she's a widow to… — Scott Simon Computer Copy Share Image
When they mention great little things in life, they usually forget flossing. — Scott Simon Flossing Copy Share Image
I take Charb's point, but at some point has Charlie Hebdo been trying to have it both ways because some of what… — Scott Simon Charlie Copy Share Image
There are times when the adoption process is exhausting and painful and makes you want to scream. But, I am told, so… — Scott Simon Adoption Copy Share Image
Almost every continent in the world, including our own, has refugees. But how often when we hear the word do we pause… — Scott Simon Continents Copy Share Image
Adoption is rewarding. But the process, as we have already detailed in some particulars, can be expensive, exhausting, and hard to sustain… — Scott Simon Adoption Copy Share Image
I was a kid and it was kind of scabrous, and it wasn't the sacrilege that bothered me so much as the… — Scott Simon Appreciation Copy Share Image
Race, blood, lineage, and nationality don't matter; they're just the way that small minds keep score. All that matters about blood is… — Scott Simon Beats Copy Share Image
Charlie Hebdo mocked everyone. They mocked the left. They mocked the right. They mocked, above all, the extreme right, the extreme right… — Scott Simon Anarchist Copy Share Image
Srebrenica's not simply another reminder of man's inhumanity to man, but how intelligent people can always come up with intelligent reasons to… — Scott Simon Aging Copy Share Image
So: this is where we are going to become parents. You walk into the building as a couple, and leave a few… — Scott Simon Building Copy Share Image
“Parenthood is shit, snot, slime, fear, tears, spit, and spills. It’s as intense as combat, which is to say hours of tedium… — Scott Simon Fear Copy Share Image
Fifteen-year-old girls produce children with sixteen-year-old boys in the backseat of cars and in the stairwells of apartment buildings. Why can't two… — Scott Simon Adults Copy Share Image
Exactly who is this God character who is said to be all-powerful yet needs to hire lawyers to take us to court?… — Scott Simon Certain Copy Share Image
It's not the cost (although that pinches), or the time (though that grinds). After a while, it's the sheer galling indignity of… — Scott Simon Child Copy Share Image
“A THOUSAND WORDS My stepfather Ralph Newman was a merry and remarkable man, a former minor league second baseman who broke his… — Scott Simon Gettysburg address Copy Share Image
“They will grow up knowing that they should be only proud about being adopted. I will consider it a parental failure if… — Scott Simon Adoption Copy Share Image
Fidel Castro takes up so much space in the Cuban mind. It's hard for us to imagine as Americans - isn't it?… — Scott Simon Castro Copy Share Image
Despite the reams of paperwork, obstacles worthy of a horse show, and a wait that can rival an elephant's gestation, adoption feels… — Scott Simon Adoption Copy Share Image
One of the reasons we think this market will start to run out of gas at some point is that you've essentially… — Scott Simon Alchemy Copy Share Image
Janis Joplin didn't just sing a song, she took it over. She swallowed it whole, then sent it back through her gut… — Scott Simon Guts Copy Share Image
Reading will put you into the minds and hearts of others. It might help you understand why other people do what they… — Scott Simon Heart Copy Share Image
Fidel Castro was a charismatic revolutionary and a ruthless leader who allowed no dissent. — Scott Simon Castro Copy Share Image
Charlie Hebdo were the licensed anarchist clowns of the society. — Scott Simon Anarchist Copy Share Image
Believe me, those great death bed speeches are written ahead of time. — Scott Simon Ahead Copy Share Image
In the wake of the deaths of the satirists, Je suis Charlie, I am Charlie, became a slogan of solidarity for free… — Scott Simon Around the world Copy Share Image
AR-15s, in particular, are often called America's gun. They're some of the most popular rifles in the country, especially when it comes… — Scott Simon Amendment Copy Share Image
Charlie Hebdo was and is not The Onion or "The Daily Show." This is a different kind of satire. Might I put… — Scott Simon Charlie Copy Share Image
“And I don't even have to include Joseph adoption Jesus to make that point, though it is irresistible to add that Joseph… — Scott Simon Adoption Copy Share Image
Fidel Castro rhetorically championed the poor. He also held the Cuban economy in a kind of arrested state. He called for racial… — Scott Simon Arrested Copy Share Image
As the race for president tightens, Hillary Clinton's campaign hopes to win over millions of people who voted for Bernie Sanders in… — Scott Simon Bernie sanders Copy Share Image
Bernie Sanders lost the Democratic presidential nomination to Hillary Clinton, but he won more than 12 million votes in the primaries and… — Scott Simon Bernie sanders Copy Share Image
Everyone understood [Charlie Hebdo], as people had understood for hundreds of years, knowing that Rabelaisian tradition of French satire, they knew how… — Scott Simon Charlie Copy Share Image
I became a pedant of the form. I did my graduate work in art history and particularly in the history of French… — Scott Simon Art Copy Share Image
“Camille died a few days later. Our daughter's hearts bear the first real cracks they have had to endure since we came… — Scott Simon Children Copy Share Image
In journalism, when we want to get a story over the jumps, we refer to it as a universal experience, but it… — Scott Simon Death Copy Share Image
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