What I Don’t Get About Galloping Magaism.

Mark Olmsted
2 min readApr 14, 2023
The frustrated author

It continually brings me up short to realize I am in the same age range, often even much older, than these conservative white men rampaging to turn this country back to 1953. I was in high school in 1973 when Roe vs Wade legalized abortion. Yes, in suburban NY, but I’m pretty sure boys my age, even in conservative Christian states, were also living to get girls to bed and many did. Abortion rates in these states were…

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Mark Olmsted

Author, "Ink from the Pen: A Prison Memoir" about my time behind bars. See GQ dot com “Curious Cons of the Man Who Wouldn’t Die” for story of how I got there.