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Entries by Mark Olmsted from 08/2011

Beyond Labels: What Comes After Marriage Equality

| Posted 08.02.2011 | Style
Read More: Jane Morgan, Dan Savage, His Way, Happily Divorce, Infidelity, Mark Oppenheimer, Fidelity, Hbo, Happy Endings, Monogamy, Gay Marriage, Fran Drescher, Marriage Equality, New York Times, Jerry Weintraub, Peter Marc Jacobson, Style News

Nuclear families were held up as the ideal in my parents' generation; now blended and non-traditional families are finally getting recognized as the "new normal. "

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Why the President Must Lose to Win

| Posted 08.09.2011 | Politics
Read More: Tea Party, Riots, Debt Ceiling, Jobs Bill, Income Ineqality, Jobs, Congress, Obama, Republicans, London, Politics News

I, for one, think the what's happening in England is a preview of what's going to be happening here. You can't ask millions of your citizens who grew ...

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When My Parents Were Help to The Help

| Posted 08.10.2011 | Huffington Post
Read More: Suburbia, Rockville-Maryland, "The Help" Mothers, Poverty, Foster Care, Maids, The 60s, Black Women, The Help, The Help Movie, Huffington Post News

We had two cleaning ladies, Mary and Nancy, a pair of sisters who alternated their weekly visits. One day, Nancy came to work in tears, unable not to cry in front of my mother. "They gonna take Mary's kids away," she sobbed.

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A Modest Proposal

| Posted 08.16.2011 | Politics
Read More: Warren Buffett, Leadership, President Obama, Tax Reform, Taxes, Bush Tax Cuts, Politics News

I think it would also be a very smart move on the part of the president to go ahead and personally pay in taxes as much as he would pay under the changes he advocates.

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