Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We dont necessarily know how to obtain happiness. – Gregg Easterbrook
I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, its fundamentally a form of entertainment. – Gregg Easterbrook
I dont think there are many larger lessons to be found in sports. – Gregg Easterbrook
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another. – George Saunders