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Gregg Easterbrook
 
Date of birth: 1953
Date of death: Alive (or unknown)
Country Of Origin: America
Profession:

Writer

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   Expertise
Christian theology; Environmental policy; Global warming; Professional sports (American football); Quality-of-life issues; Science; Space policy; "Well-being" research


Education
M.S.J., Northwestern University, 1977; B.A., Colorado College, 1976

Background
Current Position(s): Senior Editor, The New Republic; Contributing Editor, The Atlantic Monthly; Contributing Editor, The Washington Monthly; Columnist, NFL.com .... (More...)
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Approached topics: happiness world art age understand

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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. "

Gregg Easterbrook
" And sportswriting is basically a paid hobby for me. I think for what ESPN does, they're the best in the business at that combination of covering sports and also making fun of sports, which is a good formula. "

Gregg Easterbrook
" And then ESPN fired me. I did not think that was a fitting punishment. "

Gregg Easterbrook
" Aristotle called happiness "the highest good." The Framers of American democracy advocated "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." "

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" At this point I'm so sick of electronics that I want less of them! My wife, three kids and I live in a large comfortable house in a county with excellent public schools. "

Gregg Easterbrook
" But because TMQ isn't a hard news column, it's an entertainment column, it's humor and goofy stuff, I'm going to have to be cognizant about that, but I don't see it as a huge obstacle. "

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" But by showing us live coverage of every bad thing happening everywhere in the world, cable news makes life seem like it's just an endless string of disasters - when, for most people in most places today, life is fairly good. "

Gregg Easterbrook
" But if you could make that mistake and press the send button and the entire world sees it forever. "

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" But if you spontaneously recorded your thoughts for the whole world, these kinds of mistakes are going to happen. "

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" But you know, the last few months I've been churning out this blog, which is 1,000 words a day, plus TMQ, plus doing normal writing, and my next book comes out next week. So. I've just always been a fast writer. That's just how I do it. "

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" Count your blessings for selfish reasons! Psychological studies show that people who are aware of their blessings and feel grateful for them live longer than non-grateful people, have fewer medical problems such as hypertension, earn more and achieve longer marriages. "

Gregg Easterbrook
" 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. "

Gregg Easterbrook
" Even though Rush is not me and the situations were very different, I think, in the Rush Limbaugh thing, ESPN was criticized for not acting, and you remember that after a couple days of controversy over Rush. "

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" Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness. "

Gregg Easterbrook
" For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker. "

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