Gregg Edmund Easterbrook is an American writer who is a senior editor of The New Republic. His articles have appeared in Slate, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Wired, and Beliefnet. In addition, he is a fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Washington, D.C. think tank. During the National Football League season, Easterbrook writes a column called Tuesday Morning Quarterback, currently on ESPN.com. For other uses, see New Republic. ... Slate is an online news and culture magazine created in 1996 by former New Republic editor Michael Kinsley and owned by Microsoft (as part of MSN). ... The Atlantic redirects here; for the ocean, see Atlantic Ocean. ... The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed internationally. ... The Washington Post is the largest newspaper in Washington, D.C.. It is also one of the citys oldest papers, having been founded in 1877. ... The Los Angeles Times (also L.A. Times) is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California and distributed throughout the Western United States. ... Wired is a full-color monthly magazine and on-line periodical published in San Francisco, California since March 1993. ... Beliefnet is a large multi-faith e-community which provides a free forum for religious information and inspiration, spiritual tools, and discussions and dialogue groups. ... The Brookings Institution is a United States nonprofit public policy think tank based in Washington, D.C.. Described in 1977, by TIME magazine as as the nations pre-eminent liberal think tank,[1] the institution is devoted to public service through research and education in the social sciences, particularly... NFL redirects here. ...

Early life

Easterbrook was born in 1953 and grew up in Buffalo, New York. Easterbrook has a bachelor's degree in political science from Colorado College and a master's in journalism from Northwestern University. He is married and has three children; two boys, born in 1989 and 1995, and a girl born in 1990. He is the brother of Judge Frank H. Easterbrook and Neil Easterbrook, English professor at Texas Christian University. Nickname: Location of Buffalo in New York State County Government  - Mayor Byron Brown (D) Area  - City 52. ... The Colorado College is a private four-year, co-educational liberal arts college located in Colorado Springs, Colorado. ... For other uses, see Northwestern. ... Frank Hoover Easterbrook (born 1948) is Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Career

Easterbrook has been a long time critic of the Space Shuttle program, publishing an extensive criticism in 1980 in the Washington Monthly. Following the Challenger and Columbia disasters Easterbrook received attention for his belief that the shuttle program should be canceled. NASAs Space Shuttle, officially called Space Transportation System (STS), is the United States governments current manned launch vehicle. ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ... The Washington Monthly is a magazine based in Washington DC which covers American politics and government. ... The iconic image of Space Shuttle Challengers smoke plume after its breakup 73 seconds after launch. ...

In addition to his journalism, Easterbrook has published several books. His latest, The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse, was published in December 2003. The book focuses on statistical data indicating that Americans are better off in terms of material goods and amount of free time available but surveys show that they are not happier than before. Easterbrook argues that this has occurred due to choice anxiety and abundance denial. Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Easterbrook has also written books on Christian theology, American football, and the environment, along with two novels. Some of his works include The Here and Now, Tuesday Morning Quarterback, Beside Still Waters, A Moment on the Earth, and This Magic Moment. Theology finds its scholars pursuing the understanding of and providing reasoned discourse of religion, spirituality and God or the gods. ... United States simply as football, is a competitive team sport that is both fast-paced and strategic. ... Beside Still Waters is a nonfiction book by Gregg Easterbrook. ... This Magic Moment is the title of a song performed by The Drifters. ...

Easterbrook wrote multiple stories arguing that global warming was not happening, or at least that it was not a manmade problem. In 2006, he reversed that stance, writing that scientists nearly unanimously accept the evidence of an artificial greenhouse effect and that greenhouse gas emissions must be curbed.[1] Global mean surface temperatures 1850 to 2006 Mean surface temperature anomalies during the period 1995 to 2004 with respect to the average temperatures from 1940 to 1980 Global warming is the observed increase in the average temperature of the Earths atmosphere and oceans in recent decades and the projected...

Kill Bill controversy

Easterbrook also had a blog [2] at The New Republic Online, until mid-2004. In October of 2003, in a column critical of the senseless violence in the Quentin Tarantino film Kill Bill, he wrote the following: To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... For other uses, see New Republic. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, actor, and Oscar winning screenwriter. ... Kill Bill is the fourth film by writer-director Quentin Tarantino. ...

Set aside what it says about Hollywood that today even Disney thinks what the public needs is ever-more-graphic depictions of killing the innocent as cool amusement. Disney's CEO, Michael Eisner, is Jewish; the chief of Miramax, Harvey Weinstein, is Jewish. Yes, there are plenty of Christian and other Hollywood executives who worship money above all else, promoting for profit the adulation of violence. Does that make it right for Jewish executives to worship money above all else, by promoting for profit the adulation of violence? Recent European history alone ought to cause Jewish executives to experience second thoughts about glorifying the killing of the helpless as a fun lifestyle choice.

This caused an uproar and accusations that Easterbrook and The New Republic were anti-semitic. Easterbrook wrote that he "mangled" his own ideas by his choice of words and wrote the following to explain his thought process and to apologize:[3] Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...

Twenty minutes after I pressed "send," the entire world had read it. When I reread my own words and beheld how I'd written things that could be misunderstood, I felt awful. To anyone who was offended I offer my apology, because offense was not my intent. But it was 20 minutes later, and already the whole world had seen it... My attempt to connect my perfectly justified horror at an ugly and corrupting movie to the religious faith and ethnic identity of certain executives was hopelessly clumsy...accusing a Christian of adoring money above all else does not engage any history of ugly stereotypes. Accuse a Jewish person of this and you invoke a thousand years of stereotypes about that which Jews have specific historical reasons to fear. What I wrote here was simply wrong, and for being wrong, I apologize.

He further explained that he worships in one of the handful of joint Christian-Jewish congregations in the United States. He had previously written in a column that "One of the shortcomings of Christianity is that most adherents downplay the faith's interweaving with Judaism" and indicated that he and his family sought out a place where Christians and Jews express their faith cooperatively. The New Republic accepted blame for the piece in an apology [4] and denied that his comments were intentionally anti-semitic. Easterbrook continued to blog for them, and still writes articles on environmentalism (especially the damage caused by sport utility vehicles), religion and other subjects. For the psychology topic, see Environmental psychology. ... A fourth-generation (2006-) Ford Explorer, the best-selling mid-size SUV in the United States. ...

Tuesday Morning Quarterback

At the time of the Kill Bill controversy, Easterbrook's Tuesday Morning Quarterback column was appearing on the website of ESPN, which is owned by Disney. ESPN fired Easterbrook after his comments were published but after he delivered his apology, he resumed the Tuesday Morning Quarterback column, temporarily for two weeks on the independent website Football Outsiders, and then more permanently for NFL.com. ESPN/ESPN-DT, formerly an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, is an [[United States|Amer<nowiki>Insert non-formatted text here--68. ... The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) is one of the largest media and entertainment corporations in the world. ... Football Outsiders is a website started in 2003 that analyzes football teams and players using a statistical analysis formula called defense-adjusted value over average, or DVOA. Aaron Schatz, who created the DVOA formula, is the sites founder and editor. ...

The column is noted for its humor and ruthless self-parodying. Easterbrook commonly includes a "Running Items Department", football haiku and senryu, "Cheerbabe Cheesecake" and "Equal-Time Beefcake", and refers to teams by humorous nicknames or "cognomen", such as "Potomac Drainage Basin Indigenous Persons" (Washington Redskins) and "Arizona CAUTION: MAY CONTAIN FOOTBALL-LIKE SUBSTANCE Cardinals". He also guarantees "All Predictions Wrong or Your Money Back." Of course, the column is free so, as he always points out, there is nothing to be refunded. Shut up Nick, youre wrong. ... Senry&#363; (&#24029;&#26611;, literally river willow) is a Japanese form of short poetry similar to haiku in construction: three lines with 17 or fewer syllables in total. ... The cognomen (name known by in English) was originally the third name of a Roman in the Roman naming convention. ... For other uses, see Redskins (disambiguation). ... City Glendale, Arizona Other nicknames The Cards, The Birds, Big Red Team colors Cardinal Red, Black, and White Head Coach Ken Whisenhunt Owner Bill Bidwill General manager Rod Graves Mascot Big Red League/Conference affiliations National Football League (1920–present) Western Division (1933-1949) American Conference (1950-1952) Eastern Conference...

On April 24, 2006, it was announced that Easterbrook would be brought back to ESPN's website after a two-year absence. His return column, a preview of the 2006 NFL Draft, appeared the following day. is the 114th day of the year (115th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The 2006 National Football League Draft , the 71st in league history, took place in New York City at Radio City Music Hall on April 29 and April 30, 2006. ...

"TMQ" Team Nicknames

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Tuesday Morning Quarterback Non-QB Non-RB NFL MVP Award

According to Easterbrook, the "longest [named] award in sports".

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Notable articles

• "TV Really Might Cause Autism" Slate, October 16, 2006
• "Finally Feeling the Heat" New York Times, May 24, 2006
• "Case Closed: The Global Warming Debate Is Over" Brookings Institution paper, May 2006
• "Who Needs Harvard?" The Atlantic Monthly, October 2004
• "The End of War?" New Republic, May 30, 2005
• "Debunking Doomsday" Wired, July 2003
• "The Real Truth About Money" Time magazine, January 17, 2005
• "There Goes the Neighborhood" New York Times Book Review, January 30, 2005
• "Long Shot" The Atlantic Monthly, May 2003

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External links

• Gregg Easterbrook's personal site

Sports

• ESPN.com search for Gregg Easterbrook
• ESPN.com search for TMQ
• Deadspin - Gregg Easterbrook Ready To Haunt Page 2 Again.

Politics and other topics

• Case Closed: The Debate about Global Warming is Over
• Blogosmear - Gregg Easterbrook and the perils of writing before you think A Slate article By Jack Shafer
• Easterbrook's archive at tnr.com
• Easterbrook's apology on the controversy
• Easterbrook's Beliefnet.com columns
• Counterpoint: Gregg Easterbrook Reponds
• Podcast featuring Easterbrook Easterbrook discusses The Progress Paradox on EconTalk