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The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large spectacles of mass entertainment. The fundamental absurdity of that notion requires the promulgation of the various deceits necessary to carry it out.

~Charlie Pierce

Topics: Absurdity Athletics Business Carry College Deceit Entertainment Exist Fueled Fundamental Institutions Large Mass Necessary Notion Out Primarily Providing Requires Should Spectacles Universities Various

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'We, The People' is more than a statement of purpose. It is an acknowledgement of an obligation to each other.

~Charlie Pierce

Topics: Acknowledgement Each More Obligation Other People Purpose Statement Than

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Launching a newspaper without a coherent idea of how you're going to promote it, or get it to people who might want to read it, is like launching a boat without a rudder or an engine... or a hull, now that I think about it.

~Charlie Pierce

Topics: About Boat Coherent Engine Get Going How Idea Launching Like Might Newspaper Now People Promote Read Rudder Think Want Who Without You I Think

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This has been the new normal since September 11. Everyone knows, but nobody says, that if something happens again, the elite consensus in this country, and the overwhelming consensus of the citizenry, will be to pitch the Bill of Rights out the window and start rounding folks up.

~Charlie Pierce

Topics: Again Been Bill Bill Of Rights Citizenry Consensus Country Elite Everyone Folks Happens Knows New Nobody Normal Out Overwhelming Pitch Rights Says September Since Something Start Up Will Window

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Football was always a deal we made with ourselves. We adopted it for its brutality, which was embedded in a context that happened to be perfectly suited to television and to gambling, but which we could convince ourselves was only incidental to our enjoyment because it was only incidental to the game itself.

~Charlie Pierce

Topics: Adopted Always Because Brutality Context Convince Could Deal Embedded Enjoyment Football Gambling Game Happened Itself Made Only Our Ourselves Perfectly Suited Television Which

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The creative project of self-government - hard and frustrating but necessary - is to produce that political commonwealth that changes over time, that can change sometimes by the minute, if circumstances intervene.

~Charlie Pierce

Topics: Change Changes Circumstances Commonwealth Creative Frustrating Hard Intervene Minute Necessary Over Political Produce Project Self-Government Sometimes Time

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It is the doctrine of the oligarchy that there is nothing that we hold in common, that the commonwealth is a myth, that it is even a sign of softheadedness and weakness. The oligarchical power feeds on the sense that we are all individuals, struggling on our own, and ennobled by the effort.

~Charlie Pierce

Topics: Common Commonwealth Doctrine Effort Even Feeds Hold Individuals Myth Nothing Oligarchy Our Own Power Sense Sign Struggling Weakness

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Gradually, football has seen its appeal slip at the most basic levels. Pediatricians are advising parents not to let young children play organized football too early in life.

~Charlie Pierce

Topics: Advising Appeal Basic Children Early Football Gradually Levels Life Most Organized Parents Play Seen Slip Too Young Young Children

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Ronald Reagan was a dim hack who did horrible damage to almost everything he touched.

~Charlie Pierce

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There are few colonial nations anymore. Instead, we are colonized by financial institutions beyond our political control. We are colonized with pens and papers and millions of little digital bursts transferring billions of dollars all over the globe in the blink of an eye.

~Charlie Pierce

Topics: Anymore Beyond Billions Billions Of Dollars Blink Bursts Colonial Control Digital Dollars Eye Few Financial Globe Instead Institutions Little Millions Nations Our Over Papers Pens Political

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: December 28th, 1953

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