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Blog Entries by Mark Olmsted from 03/2011

Explaining Charlie Sheen

| Posted 03.01.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Rehab, Charlie Sheen, Addiction, Drugs, Two and a Half Men, Recovery, Charlie Sheen Drug Addiction, Charlie Sheen News, Charlie Sheen Drugs, Charlie Sheen Side Effects, Healthy Living News

I was no sitcom star, nor was I wealthy or famous. But I was well-educated, talented, loved by family and friends. Despite these blessings, I could not stop using crystal meth.

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Income Inequality for Dummies

| Posted 03.04.2011 | Comedy
Read More: Pizza, Tax-Cuts-for-Rich, Wisconsin, Taxes, Income Inequality, Cats, Comedy News

Mother Jones and their fancy charts are all well and good, but I figure the best way to convey income inequality in this country is to use two thing...

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What the Right Really Wants

| Posted 03.09.2011 | Politics
Read More: Abortion, Women, Unions, Gays, Scott Walker, Right Wing, Immigrants, Rightwing Republicans, Tea Party, Politics News

It is not enough for the right to have all the money, they want the rest of us to agree they deserve it. It's not enough for us to be poor, we need to admit it's our fault that we are.

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American Reactors on Verge of Meltdown

| Posted 03.17.2011 | Comedy
Read More: Nuclear Reactors, Michele Bachmann, Japan Disaster, Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh, Comedy News

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The Fourth "F" Is Fear

| Posted 03.22.2011 | Politics
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One of the anti-gay organizations Newt Gingrich funneled money to in Iowa has for its slogan "Faith, Freedom and Free Markets." A little googling br...

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Field of Dreams: Explaining Economic Mobility Through Baseball

| Posted 03.29.2011 | Politics
Read More: Tea Party, Downward Mobility, Upward Mobility, Carnegie, American Dream, Social Mobility, Congress, Obama, Middle Class, Vanderbilt, Baseball, Horatio Alger, Politics News

America is galloping backward to a degree of class immobility unseen since pre-World War I Europe. Almost everyone can expect to die now in the same class they were born in.

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