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Know Your Safe-Goat: A Tip for Holiday Survival

Mark O'Connell, L.C.S.W. | Posted 02.03.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Triangulating, Family Drama, Scapegoat, Family, Family Relationships, Holidays, Mark O'Connell, Safe-Goat, Holidays Stress, Emotional Wellness, Holiday Family Stress, Family Stress, Holidays and Relationships, Holiday Stress, Holidays and Family Stress, Holidays Families, Holidays Family, Healthy Living News
Mark O'Connell, L.C.S.W.

As opposed to a family scapegoat -- an immediate family member at whom we direct unprocessed anxiety or anger -- a "safe-goat" is a person far enough outside our immediate family system at whom we can direct unprocessed anxiety or anger without inflaming conflicts between present members.

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11 Scapegoats In History

Charlie Campbell | Posted 04.16.2012 | Books
Read More: Book News, Scapegoat, Trotsky, Slidepollajax, Leon Trotsky, Alfred Dreyfus, Scapegoat History, Ismay Titanic, Ismay Scapegoat, Books News
Charlie Campbell

The blame game is one of mankind's oldest rituals. After disaster, we invariably look for someone whom we can hold responsible.

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The Murder of Mental Health Caring

Carol Smaldino | Posted 08.17.2011 | Impact
Read More: Murder, Anger, Page One Documentary, Empathy, Scapegoat, Bullying, New York Times, Page One: Inside the New York Times, Massachusetts Mental Health System, Psychiatric Illness, Death, Stephanie Moulton, Diversity, Impact News
Carol Smaldino

The American Dream was to include everyone, even the tired and the poor, and those without benefit of private rehabs or psychiatric facilities.

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Goodbye Luis Castillo

Jon Chattman | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Amazins, Scapegoat, Mets, Candle in the Wind, Fred Wilpon, Luis Castillo, Citifield, New York Mets, Bernie Madoff, Lawsuit, Wilpon, Elton John, Bobby Bonilla, Carlos Beltran, Terry Collins, Florida, Marlins, New York News
Jon Chattman

Sorry Kermit, it's actually quite easy being green. It's being a Mets fan that's really difficult. Some great news came out of camp when GM Sandy relieved fans of the misery that has been Luis Castillo.

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Weekly Audit: The Real Legacy of Reaganomics

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: UK, Taxes, American Prospect, Johann Hari, Ronald Reagan, State, Voodoo Economics, Colorado Independent, Vodafone, Smurfs' Village, Public Employee, Colorado, The Nation, Kevin Drum, Capcom, Republican, Reaganomics, Yves Smith, Wealth, Smurfberries, Scapegoat, Finance, Mother Jones, Protests, UK Uncut, Sit Ins, Real News Network, Tea Party, Economy, Paul Starr, Politics News
The Media Consortium

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Sunday marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of B-movie actor-turned-conservative president, Ronal...

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Don't Speak: Helen Thomas and the Culture of Blame

Carol Smaldino | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Jews, Germany, Judgment at Nuremberg, Scapegoat, Nazi's, Bible, Poland, Helen Thomas Israel, Holocaust, Israel, Cold War, Political Correctness, Joe Mccarthy, Helen Thomas, Inconvenient Truth, Blame, Hatred, Politics News
Carol Smaldino

It is wrong to shame Helen Thomas, who, throughout her life has been one of the only people to dare to offend those who needed it.

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Murdoch and Fox Portray Black Men as Terrorists on 24

Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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Ronald B. Robinson

The first two Presidents on 24 were Black men. The first was assassinated and the second was responsible for allowing nuclear bombs into the country, causing mass destruction.

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Walking the Last Mile to Recovery

Ned Goldreyer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Read More: Financial Crisis, Bankers, Bill Gates, Scapegoat, Madoff, Economy, Comedy News
Ned Goldreyer

The economy is not a rational system: It is a scam run by an elite who control the masses through indecipherable rules. Get it? It's a religion, and a religious problem requires a religious solution, i.e. something crazy.

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