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    • 40 Ratings
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    Is Positive Thinking the Opiate of the People?

    APRIL 23, 2012 9:39AM

    By divorcedpauline


    Topics: unite against the war on women, positive thinking, get rich quick, ann romney, mitt romney, class divide, barbara ehrenreich, motivational speakers, privilege, job creators

    • 1 Ratings
    • 715 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    Occupy Wall Street “Kool-Aid” anyone?

    OCTOBER 28, 2011 11:43AM

    By zacherydtaylor


    Topics: sixty minutes, dylan ratigan, susan linn, consuming kids, roy fox, harvesting minds, juliet schor, born to buy, naomi klein, no logo, jim jones, geraldo rivera, don’t let the kids drink the kool-aid, mary beth hicks, education, business, economy, news, politics, occupy america, occupy wall street, wall street, price fixing, occupywallst.org, mass media, nickel and dimed, barbara ehrenreich, ows, occupy movement, zuccotti park

    • 3 Ratings
    • 746 Views
    • 6 Comments
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    Occupy Wall Street and Cash Register Protests

    SEPTEMBER 26, 2011 1:30PM

    By zacherydtaylor


    Topics: slotting fees, planned obsolescence, wall street, this is probably, fiction, but on the other hand maybe not!, barbara ehrenreich, nickel and dimed, mark whitacre, mass media, downsizing, first amendment, occupywallst.org, zuccotti park, occupy movement, ows, price fixing, cash register protests, occupy wall street, occupy america, politics, news, economy, business

    • Editor's Pick
    • 24 Ratings
    • 4312 Views
    • 39 Comments
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    My Year of "Eat Pray Love": Healing Journey or Hocus Pocus?

    OCTOBER 6, 2010 2:56PM

    By Ester Amy Fischer


    Topics: barbara ehrenreich, bright-sided, law of attraction, positive thinking, emotional healing, healing journey, healing, elizabeth gilbert, eat pray love

    • 7 Ratings
    • 1367 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    THYME AND GARLIC SALMON ROULADES

    SEPTEMBER 26, 2010 10:38PM

    By Theresa Rice


    Topics: food/drink, play with your food, foodie tuesday, joost elffers, saxton freymann, weird al, thyme and garlic salmon roulades, salmon croquette, memories, childhood, seafood, louisiana, baton rouge, new orleans, family, barbara ehrenreich, social activist, skc salmon

    • 4 Ratings
    • 1984 Views
    • 12 Comments
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    Huffington and Robbins, a match made in snake-oil hell

    JULY 26, 2010 4:43PM

    By Robert Crook


    Topics: barbara ehrenreich, bright-sided, bright-sided: how the relentless pursuit of positive thinking has undermined america, greed, exploitation, huffington post, baby-boomer assholes, baby boomers, tony robbins, positive thinking, self-help, arianna huffington, snake oil salesmen, snake oil, fraudsters, fraud

    • 0 Ratings
    • 278 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Big Mike: Cold And Gray

    FEBRUARY 13, 2010 8:51AM

    By Big Mike Glab


    Topics: anti-vaccination movement, jenny mccarthy, valentine's day, autism spectrum disorder, asperger's syndrome, dsm v, american psychiatric association, bright-sided, barbara ehrenreich, cats, facebook, lifetime movie network, luge, nbc, dan jansen, winter olympics, olympics, bloomington indiana

    • 6 Ratings
    • 1921 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    Cleaning House

    JANUARY 10, 2010 9:35AM

    By Padma Viswanathan


    Topics: health care, slumming, pink collar, orhan pamuk, kiran desai, aravind adiga, housekeeper, virginia woolf, barbara ehrenreich, labor

    • 0 Ratings
    • 379 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Glossing your brood in genteel shine

    MAY 27, 2009 1:48AM

    By Patrick McEvoy-Halston


    Topics: classical education, secondary education, barbara ehrenreich, tyee, ubc

    • 2 Ratings
    • 357 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    If what you most care about is getting smart

    FEBRUARY 12, 2009 11:01AM

    By Patrick McEvoy-Halston


    Topics: education, progressive schooling, schooling, harvard, barbara ehrenreich, ehrenreich, itunes u

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