Gregg Easterbrook

How many times have you bought something thinking it would make you happy, and found it does not?

— Gregg Easterbrook

Inevitably, these sorts of things are going to come back to blow up in people's faces.

— Gregg Easterbrook

I'm a smart guy, I know the history of this issue and why people care about it.

— Gregg Easterbrook

Peace on earth and mercy mild are still possible. On Christmas Eve, all things are possible.

— Gregg Easterbrook

Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.

— Gregg Easterbrook

I don't think there are many larger lessons to be found in sports.

— Gregg Easterbrook

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

— Gregg Easterbrook

Seek happiness and you may or may not find it; seek grievances and you are guaranteed success.

— Gregg Easterbrook

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

— Gregg Easterbrook

The science has changed from ambiguous to near-unanimous... Based on the data I'm now switching sides regarding global warming, from skeptic to…

— Gregg Easterbrook

It was actually a very nice little book done by a gift book company. They illustrated it with pictures from 1920s football,…

— Gregg Easterbrook

For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I…

— Gregg Easterbrook

And if there was something, suppose I wanted to write something really damning or embarrassing about one of the owners, that would…

— Gregg Easterbrook

I didn't view myself as attacking the boss. I viewed my boss at ESPN as the publisher and president of ESPN.

— Gregg Easterbrook

I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.

— Gregg Easterbrook

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

— Gregg Easterbrook

Now, for pure bloggers, for individual people who are just posting their own thoughts, they would still run the same risk of…

— Gregg Easterbrook

It was Orwellian. I completely disappeared, and disappeared the same day. It was by early that evening when the Times story ran.…

— Gregg Easterbrook

I'm working seven days a week in the fall. I couldn't possibly keep that up. This is only for the fall. In…

— Gregg Easterbrook

“The Blue Hose of Presbyterian College and the Ichabods of Washburn University are perhaps the most amusing nicknames in collegiate sports; Blue…

— Gregg Easterbrook

Count your blessings for selfish reasons! Psychological studies show that people who are aware of their blessings and feel grateful for them…

— Gregg Easterbrook

Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that's why those…

— Gregg Easterbrook

But by showing us live coverage of every bad thing happening everywhere in the world, cable news makes life seem like it's…

— Gregg Easterbrook

Autumn truly is what summer pretends to be: the best of all seasons. It is as glorious as summer is tedious; as…

— Gregg Easterbrook

A spacecraft is a metaphor of national inspiration: majestic, technologically advanced, produced at dear cost and entrusted with precious cargo, rising above…

— Gregg Easterbrook

... the consensus of the scientific community has shifted from skepticism to near-unanimous acceptance of the evidence of an artificial greenhouse effect.…

— Gregg Easterbrook

I think that might have been an element in it, and people have asked me that very thing. Remember, Disney is the…

— Gregg Easterbrook

The only reason runaway global warming seems unstoppable is that we have not yet tried to stop it.

— Gregg Easterbrook

I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in…

— Gregg Easterbrook

Stereotypes involving Christian identity, Christian persecution is so far back in history now that no one fears it being revived, unless you…

— Gregg Easterbrook

When television producers say it is the parents obligation to keep children away from the tube, they reach the self satire point…

— Gregg Easterbrook

I behaved poorly by starting this whole thing and I made some mistakes in dealing with it, and they made some mistakes…

— Gregg Easterbrook

You know, some of the good part of blog theory was that blogs would be like diaries that the world could read.…

— Gregg Easterbrook

Instant-doomsday hyperbole caused the world's attention to focus on the hypothetical threat of global warming to the exclusion of environmental menaces that…

— Gregg Easterbrook

A transition from material want to meaning want is in progress on an historically unprecedented scale-involving hundreds of millions of people-and may…

— Gregg Easterbrook

Set aside the many competing explanations of the Big Bang; something made an entire cosmos out of nothing. It is this realization-that…

— Gregg Easterbrook

Though environmental orthodoxy holds that Third World deforestation is caused by rapacious clear-cutters and ruthless cattle barons, penniless peasants seeking fuel wood…

— Gregg Easterbrook

Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around…

— Gregg Easterbrook

If our goal in legislating against carbon releases is not simply punishing the West and its power companies but truly trying to…

— Gregg Easterbrook

Even though Rush is not me and the situations were very different, I think, in the Rush Limbaugh thing, ESPN was criticized…

— Gregg Easterbrook