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1 week ago | 
greggeasterbrook.substack.com | Gregg Easterbrook
Since returning to the White House in January, Donald Trump has declared eight national emergencies. The United States has not been attacked. The economy is in mostly good condition. Tornadoes and heavy rain hit Tennessee and Kentucky, but there has been no major natural disaster. There is no epidemic. Goods, services, foodstuffs, energy and primary materials are plentiful. Yet eight national emergencies announced in slightly more than three months.
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2 weeks ago | 
greggeasterbrook.substack.com | Gregg Easterbrook
The NFL draft is presented to the public as a form of entertainment. Nearly 14 million viewers watched, more than the average for last season’s NBA Finals, which pit the large markets of Dallas and Boston; more than the average audience for Tracker, number-one scripted show. Boy was the slide of Shedeur Sanders entertaining, injecting drama and pathos into what’s fundamentally the reading of a list of names.
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3 weeks ago | 
greggeasterbrook.substack.com | Gregg Easterbrook
Note: there will be another bonus TMQ next Tuesday analyzing the draft, then Tuesday Morning Quarterback returns to hiatus until the football artificial universe restarts in the fall. All Predictions Wrong on Friday is ongoing. Through its quirky years of existence, Tuesday Morning Quarterback has mainly been about the NFL. In addition, TMQ pays attention to prep football, because there are 500 high school players (most of them, legally, children) for each one NFL gent.
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4 weeks ago | 
greggeasterbrook.substack.com | Gregg Easterbrook
Please note — this post is not paywalled. All Predictions Wrong is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. For Easter, a bit out of the ordinary – in the form of a short story, the account of an outcast working girl who had the longest recorded conversation with Jesus. Dialogue between her and Jesus is verbatim from John in the NRSV. The rest is imagination, though based on what is known about the woman from other sources.
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1 month ago | 
greggeasterbrook.substack.com | Gregg Easterbrook
The year 2025 offers a religious triple conjunction. Western Easter and Orthodox Easter fall on the same day, April 20, while Easter is the final day of Passover. Christmas gets the attention. Easter matters more to theology.
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1 month ago | 
greggeasterbrook.substack.com | Gregg Easterbrook
Schedule note:A busy April here at All Predictions WrongOn Friday the 11th, reupping my essay about why Easter, not Christmas, is the essence of Christian theology. (This year Western and Orthodox Easter fall on the same day.) On Friday the 18th, just before Easter, something unusual. A short story version of the longest known conversation Jesus had with any person. His interlocutor was a Samaritan (unclean to a rabbi like Jesus) who was a sexually free woman (doubly unclean).
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1 month ago | 
greggeasterbrook.substack.com | Gregg Easterbrook
Please tap the {{heart}} button, which helps new readers find All Predictions Wrong. People are plenty riled up about Elon Musk, to the point of vandalizing Tesla cars. Vandalism is a crime that must be prosecuted. But there are disturbing indications Musk has become punch-drunk on power and attention, and is making glib pronouncements about matters he doesn’t understand.
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1 month ago | 
greggeasterbrook.substack.com | Gregg Easterbrook
The All Predictions Wrong project – revival of Tuesday Morning Quarterback plus a weekly essay on an eclectic range of subjects – began two years ago today. All Predictions Wrong is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. I have kept faith with the reading public: All predictions have been wrong!Click here for a discount that allows you to become paid – access to everything – at 20 percent off.
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2 months ago | 
greggeasterbrook.substack.com | Gregg Easterbrook
Coming soon – All Predictions Wrong Greatest Hits!All Predictions Wrong is about to turn two years old. I will review some of the greatest hits, and send free subscribers a discount offer to upgrade. There is talk of a ceasefire regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Let’s hope the guns are silenced and a peace conference follows. Peace conferences can be exasperating – and are among the most hopeful events on our world. But how could this situation ever be resolved?
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2 months ago | 
greggeasterbrook.substack.com | Gregg Easterbrook
In addition to musing about purchasing Greenland, President Trump has suggested some kind of United States-Canada consolidation. The new nation of AmeriCan. Or the United States of Everything North of the Gulf of America. Perhaps Canada would agree to be annexed, as the Republic of Texas did. Perhaps Canada would have to be conquered. The latter might not be as easy as might sound.