@EasterbrookG

"The Blue Age" in bookstores now. Starred review, Kirkus: "Outstanding." Suitably quirky All Predictions Wrong now at Substack. TMQ has returned in same place.

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Trump just called for a big commitment to U.S. shipbuilding. Yet another instance of ripped-from-the-pages-of-today’s-headlines for my 2021 book THE BLUE AGE.
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1/3 Tuesday Morning Quarterback: What if the political parties had football policy positions
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2/3 plus an ode to milkshakes
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3/3 more at greggeasterbrook.substack.co…. If X throttles the link, google “Easterbrook All Predictions Wrong”
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Reagan-appointed federal judges dominate casebooks because Reagan chose intellectuals. This never occurred to Biden or Trump law.com/2026/10/23/2-reagan-…

2 Reagan-Appointed Judges Still Dominate Casebooks. What About Newer Judges? | Law.com

"It's incredibly hard to get into the casebooks, in part because it is just like a Christmas playlist," said University of Virginia School of Law professor Mitu Gulati.

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1/3 Tuesday Morning Quarterback: Rams, Seahawks reeling
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2/3 plus the NBA opens will there be any traveling calls this season?
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3/3 more at greggeasterbrook.substack.co…. If X throttles the link, google “Easterbrook All Predictions Wrong”
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She could start a communication consultancy with Anthony Scaramucci (11 days in White House). They could call it Now You See Us Now You Don’t. nytimes.com/2026/10/16/us/po…

Katie Zacharia Is Ousted After 5 Days as White House Press Secretary

Her abrupt departure came after she was shadowed by questions about how she had presented her legal career and handled her first press briefing.

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1/3 Tuesday Morning Quarterback: An ode to Friday Night Lights
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2/3 Plus America leads the world in cheeseburger technology
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It’s about to rain a lot in Nashville. With any luck tomorrow’s NFL contest of 0-4 Houston at 0-4 Tennessee will be rained out. houstonpress.com/news/nfl-we…

NFL Week 5 Preview: Houston Texans at Tennessee Titans - Houston Press

The Texans need a win to avoid an 0-5 start.

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1/3 TMQ: Age of the Tunnel Fits
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2/3 why the NFL needed to hire a Fashion Editor. (That’s Travis Kelce shown)
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3/3 more at greggeasterbrook.substack.co…. If X throttles the link, google “Easterbrook All Predictions Wrong”
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Hell’s Sports Bar will be crowded next Sunday as the 0-4 Titans host 0-4 Houston. Of course Hell’s Sports Bar is always crowded because you can’t leave.
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Yet again NYT expresses horror over repeal of a climate rule without mentioning American GHG emissions are declining anyway. Peaked in 2005 and have declined since. nytimes.com/2026/10/01/clima…

States Sue Over Trump’s Repeal of Climate Rules for Power Plants

The mostly Democratic-led states say that the E.P.A. acted unlawfully when it erased Biden-era limits on carbon dioxide from coal- and gas-fired plants.

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Nobels soon. A sharp rundown of past work that should have won science.org/content/article/…

Five physics breakthroughs that should have won a Nobel Prize—but didn’t

How politics, bad timing, and skepticism left foundation stones of modern physics unrecognized

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A re-up (not paywalled) of an Ode to Autumn I wrote this time a year ago greggeasterbrook.substack.co…
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1/3 Tuesday Morning Quarterback: the NFL as seen by accountants.
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2/3 Plus the Packers and Texans sink slowly into the west.
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3/3 more at greggeasterbrook.substack.co…. If X throttles the link, google “Easterbrook All Predictions Wrong”
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