Gregg Easterbrook
Gregg Easterbrook
Gregg Edmund Easterbrookis an American writer and a contributing editor of both The New Republic and The Atlantic Monthly. During the National Football League season, Easterbrook formerly wrote an eclectic column called Tuesday Morning Quarterback on ESPN.com, and that column migrated to the New York Times in September 2015. He has authored nine books, and writes for op-ed pages, magazines, and journals...
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It was Orwellian. I completely disappeared, and disappeared the same day. It was by early that evening when the Times story ran. That was an overreaction. All human beings under pressure behave poorly.
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You need some counterpoint to a big developer. With NRDC and St. Joe facing off with each other, that's relatively equal competition.
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I think they completely overreacted by firing me, but in my mind I think this coming a month after Rush Limbaugh had a lot to do with it.
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Playing football is obviously very strenuous. It's exhausting. You have to try very hard in football. But there's no heroic risk involved.
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Hurricanes became a media obsession in the mid-'90s, when there were two consecutive above-average years for Atlantic storms,
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Smart growth' does not have a fixed definition. Phrases like that mean whatever you want them to mean.
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If you are looking for something to complain about, you are absolutely certain to find it. It requires some effort to achieve a happy outlook on life, and most people don't make it. Most people take the path of least resistance. Far too many people today don't make the steps to make their life more fulfilling one.
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Now, for pure bloggers, for individual people who are just posting their own thoughts, they would still run the same risk of saying something wrong or embarrassing, but they wouldn't harm their institutions by doing so.
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Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that's why those references are so much more powerful. I just understand that better now.
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You know, some of the good part of blog theory was that blogs would be like diaries that the world could read. They would be spontaneous, whatever pops into your mind, as a diary would be.
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A spacecraft is a metaphor of national inspiration: majestic, technologically advanced, produced at dear cost and entrusted with precious cargo, rising above the constraints of the earth. The spacecraft carries our secret hope that there is something better out there-a world where we may someday go and leave the sorrows of the past behind. The spacecraft rises toward the heavens exactly as, in our finest moments as a nation, our hearts have risen toward justice and principle.
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Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.
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Set aside the many competing explanations of the Big Bang; something made an entire cosmos out of nothing. It is this realization-that something transcendent started it all-which has hard-science types...using terms like 'miracle.'
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Peace on earth and mercy mild are still possible. On Christmas Eve, all things are possible.