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Gene Norman Weingarten, born in New York in 1951 , is a humor writer and journalist. His column, ''Below the Beltway '', is published weekly in the Washington Post Magazine and syndicated nationally by The Washington Post Writers Group. Weingarten was a fellow at the Nieman Foundation For Journalism at Harvard University in 1987 - 1988 . "Psychology, but only because it was the easiest major." is Weingarten's description of his major. "I spent all my time as editor of the daily newspaper, and then dropped out with three credits to go." http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/03/r_style_weingarten052003.htm --> He dropped out to spend months with a Puerto Rican streetgang in New York; this resulted in a cover story for New York Magazine . Weingarten served as an editor at the Miami Herald 's Sunday magazine, Tropic, from 1985 to 1990 . Perhaps his best-known professional accomplishment is hiring Dave Barry , thus giving one of America's best known humor columnists his big break. The Tropic won two Pulitzer Prizes , including Barry's, during Weingarten's tenure. Weingarten created and edited the cultishly popular Style Invitational humor contest for the Washington Post until late 2003 under the Pseudonym of the Czar , but he publicly denies this. He hosts, as of 2006, one of the most popular Washington Post online chats, called "Chatological Humor, aka Tuesdays with Moron". Common topics in his online chat include the art of Comic Strips , analysis of humor, politics, philosophy, medicine, gender differences, and human excretory functions. Weingarten writes that humor quality is objective, not subjective, and claims to be the final arbiter on the subject. A hypochondriac until a near-fatal infection with Hepatitis C , he is familiar with a wide range of medical conditions as a result of writing ''The Hypochondriac's Guide To Life. And Death.'' Weingarten is a fan of the Washington Nationals and New York Yankees Baseball teams. He is also an amateur expert on mechanical Clocks . Since 2001 he has lived in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, DC. He has two children, Molly and Dan, and his wife of 26 years, a lawyer at the U.S. Department Of Justice . BIBLIOGRAPHY
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