In HBO's 'Olive Kitteridge,' the power of negative thinking

She seems like such an unpleasant and perplexing person, Olive Kitteridge, until you start to recognize yourself in her. Or maybe you don't. American culture, after all, has spent considerable time and money promoting a positive attitude in all things, as if good cheer can solve any problem. Cancer can be willed away by enough pink ribbons. Football games can be won by banishing negative thoughts and asking for divine intervention. Celebrities speak candidly of ways they've learned to shun "nega...