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Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

Barbara Ehrenreich

No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on.
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Chance Debt Hand
while everything else in our lives has gotten simpler, speedier, more microwavable and user-friendly, child-raising seems to have expanded to fill the time no longer available for it.
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Children Friendly Live Our
Jesus: a wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist.
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Atheism Jesus Wine
Feminists have not tried to “destroy the family”. We just thought the family was such a good idea that men might want to get involved in it too.
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Feminist Ideas Men
For anyone worn down, The Impossible Will Take a Little While is a bracing double cappuccino.
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Bracing Cappuccino Impossible Little
… there hasn’t been a serious life-style trend since the couch potato was sighted, in about 1986, on one of its rare forays to the video store. Cocooning remains a significant mass enterprise, encouraged by the availability of five hundred new cable channels and microwavable popcorn.
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Availability Popcorn Style
So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
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Energetic Happiness Test Upbeat
Experimental science is fascinating, but I don’t want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I’ll read about it.
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Experimental People Science Want
The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of public consciousness has just swung from Greed to Compassion and from Tex-Mex to meatballs
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Compassion Media Yuppies
I’m not a nice person.
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Nice Person Oversmart Think
The fact is that heterosexual sex for most people is in no way free of the power relations between men and women.
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Men People Sex
The failure to think positively can weigh on a cancer patient like a second disease.
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Cancer Disease Thinking
People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don’t expect them to have the power to do much about it. Or we don’t want them to exercise that power, if they were to have it.
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Exercise Judging People Perform Power President
If there is no God or no evidence of God and certainly no evidence of a very morally engaged god, then whatever has to be done has to be done by us.
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Atheism Done Evidence God
So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist. In fact, deep in their hearts, this is what the spuds crave most: a rich, new, participatory life.
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Heart Love People
Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don’t happen to think it’s an appropriate subject for an ‘ethic.’
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Ethics Thinking Work

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