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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And if there was something, suppose I wanted to write something really damning or embarrassing about one of the owners, that would really be a problem on the NFL's site.
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I'm working seven days a week in the fall. I couldn't possibly keep that up. This is only for the fall. In the last couple of years I've tended to do most of my serious writing in the winter, when there's nothing going on with football.
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I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.
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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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I view the players as entertainers. Their job is to entertain you, and although an Arizona Cardinals game might not have that effect, most of them do.
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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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ESPN has said that they fired me without having been told to do so by Disney, and I actually believe that. I think they did it on their own.
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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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The Shuttles were nice when we fist made them in 1981, but really they are now 25 years old. ... Who out there is driving 25 year old cars? These babies are classics with 100 millions miles on them. Its time to send The Shuttles to museums were they belong. I'm just glad the folks at Shuttle Trader Magazine are there to help NASA unload these turkeys.
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I would guess that at the very least that all blogs that are affiliated with an organization are going to be edited, if they're not already.
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Neither Aristotle nor the Framers were known for self-indulgence. All believed that happiness is a legitimate goal in life; perhaps, one of the reasons we are here.
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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.