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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
Early
Children
Football
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" I judge the jobs I've had in this business by the places they took me, and by that standard, there simply has been nothing to match 'The National Sports Daily.' "
Charlie Pierce
Daily
Judge
Sports
" If you offer athletes stipends, then you're into pay-for-play, and that's the ballgame. People should realize that, and they should realize that amateurism never has been a sustainable model for a sports-entertainment industry. It wasn't in tennis. It wasn't in the Olympics. And it's not in big-time college sports. "
Charlie Pierce
Realize
College
You
" 'We, The People' is more than a statement of purpose. It is an acknowledgement of an obligation to each other. "
Charlie Pierce
Obligation
Purpose
More
" For all the huffing and blowing we get about rugged individualism, the American spirit and the American experiment always have had at their heart the notion that the government is all of us and that, therefore, the government may keep things in trust for all of us. "
Charlie Pierce
Trust
Us
Heart
" 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
Game
Football
Television
" 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
Political
Financial
Eye
" We have a revolutionary history to honor and uphold. Which was what Nelson Mandela did. He reminded us of that which we need to be reminded, over and over again, about our own best selves. "
Charlie Pierce
Over
Own
Best
" In the fall of 1989, I was writing 600-word columns at the 'Herald.' My heart always was in long-form narrative writing, though. It's what I cut my teeth on at the 'Boston Phoenix.' "
Charlie Pierce
Teeth
Heart
Writing
" The murder of John Kennedy in broad daylight in the streets of an American city remains, to me, an unsolved crime. "
Charlie Pierce
John
American
City
" There is a barbarism in the American soul, and we must protect some of it by law. To root it out is to endanger our lives on the one hand, and our liberty on the other. "
Charlie Pierce
American
Liberty
Protect
" Paul Ryan hasn't lacked for a job since he left college as the golden child of Wisconsin Republican politics, riding his family connections into a job with then-Senator Bob Kasten. "
Charlie Pierce
College
Child
Politics
" Nobody loves the Boston Marathon as much as the people who make fun of it year after year. This was the race that previously offered as a prize a not particularly expensive medal, a laurel wreath, and a bowl of beef stew. This was the race that, on one memorable occasion, nobody knew who actually won. "
Charlie Pierce
People
Race
Marathon
" In the year of our Lord 2010, the voters of the United States elected the worst Congress in the history of the Republic. There have been Congresses more dilatory. There have been Congresses more irresponsible, though not many of them. "
Charlie Pierce
Republic
Congress
History
" There was no way to lock down, or tighten up, or Fail-Safe into Security Theater a race that covers 26.2 miles, a race that travels from town to town, a race that travels past people's houses. There was no way to garrison the Boston Marathon. Now there will be. "
Charlie Pierce
Marathon
Security
People
" The Republicans find their faith imperiled by Barney Frank's marriage. There is always a shadow on the wall, a monster in the closet, a mysterious rustling in the teeming underbrush of the conservative Id. "
Charlie Pierce
Shadow
Conservative
Faith
" 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
Rights
Country
Nobody
" 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
People
You
Boat
" 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
Creative
Hard
Political
" One of the great changes wrought by the increased public awareness of Alzheimer's - and thank you, Nancy Reagan, you wonderful tough old dame, you - is that people in the early stages of the disease are now speaking out while they still have the capacity to do so. "
Charlie Pierce
Great
Changes
Tough
" Ronald Reagan was a dim hack who did horrible damage to almost everything he touched. "
Charlie Pierce
Horrible
Who
He
" We owe each other a debt and we owe each other an obligation, and because of these fundamental American imperatives, there are things that we own in common with each other, and that we are obliged to protect for our posterity. The water. The trees. The wild places in the land. We lose sight of these truths sometimes. "
Charlie Pierce
Lose
Water
Trees
" At the time of his death, John Kennedy had a national security establishment that was a writhing ball of snakes. "
Charlie Pierce
Time
Death
National Security
" As he enters his final term, with the elegiac music playing out there in the distance, Barack Obama will use the history that he has come to embody and, perhaps, even to fulfill, as part of a larger project that never will be completed but only finished, over and over again. "
Charlie Pierce
Project
Music
Distance
" 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
Power
Effort
Nothing