About the author
Michael O'Connell grew up in upstate New York but lives now in Sterling, Virginia, with his wife and son. He is the author of The Other Side of the Coin (2007), a free-market response to Barbaba Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed. After a stint as editor of his college newspaper, O'Connell started his own commercial paper, The Binghamton Vanguard, which he edited from 2004-2009. O'Connell hosted two radio shows in the Binghamton, New York, area, from 2001-2005, and a television show (Politics After Dark) from 2004-2011. The episodes focused on not only politics but sports and pop culture as well. Currently he is a teacher in the Loudoun County Public School district in Loudoun County, Virginia. In addition to his other works, his blog can be found at www.mikeoconnelljr.com. His weekly podcast is Math and Musings, found wherever podcasts are sold.