Well, not quite, as I disagreed with a great deal of her stuff.
Barbara Ehrenreich, author who resisted injustice, dies aged 81
Writer of the 2001 bestseller Nickel and Dimed died on 1 September, her son announced
But who will Polly “borrow” her book ideas from now?
‘coming to the realization that she had lived long enough to die’
This was of course the argument for not fussing about covid, since the main victims would be those about to get the chop anyway.
No doubt she was a virulent advocate for the lockdowns.
‘He accompanied the announcement with a comment redolent of his mother’s spirit: “She was never much for thoughts and prayers’
She was an atheist who didn’t think much?
“Outside of their particular area of expertise scientists are just as dumb as the next person.”
– Richard Feynman
She should’ve stuck to cellular immunology…
Filling in for a vacationing Thomas Friedman as a columnist with The New York Times in 2004, Ehrenreich wrote about how, in the fight for women’s reproductive rights, “it’s the women who shrink from acknowledging their own abortions who really irk me” and said that she herself “had two abortions during my all-too-fertile years”
Enjoy Hell, Babs.
Pray for her immortal soul / enjoy hell, bitch.
Just the same, really.
PJF – Have you ever seen this Mitchell and Webb sketch:
https://youtu.be/yRujuE-GIY4
Not until just now. A classic.
I wonder if that was an active church.
She was an atheist who didn’t think much?
If you’ve never found a liberal you’ve been repulsed by, then you haven’t come across Barbara Ehrenreich. A truly nasty piece of work.
“who resisted injustice”: except by …. whom? Commies? Who else?
It obit ends with a Guardian classic.
‘This article was amended on 3 September 2022. Ehrenreich’s first book was called Long March, Short Spring, not “Long March, Short Song” as an earlier version said.’
In the case of Ms Ehrenreich perhaps the song is over but the malady lingers on.