Stereotypes involving Christian identity, Christian persecution is so far back in history now that no one fears it being revived, unless you live in China, I guess.
From Gregg Easterbrook
You know, some of the good part of blog theory was that blogs would be like diaries that the world could read. They would be spontaneous, whatever pops into your mind, as a diary would be.
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.
And then ESPN fired me. I did not think that was a fitting punishment.
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.
But if you could make that mistake and press the send button and the entire world sees it forever.
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.
I didn't view myself as attacking the boss. I viewed my boss at ESPN as the publisher and president of ESPN.
I don't think there are many larger lessons to be found in sports.
I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.
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