It Took Two Tons of Metal
ByEd Raymond [email protected] Tevye: “Oh, Lord, You Made Many, Many Poor People. If I Were a Rich Man……… Whenever Corky and I get a…
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Be a do-gooder this year
Last September, the Fargo Forum reported that the Kilbourne Group, along with Fargo’s finest elected officials, met with the Salvation Army behind closed doors…
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Em Christie, letter to the editor
Degrading the Humanity of All Involved To the editor: Learning a new name for someone can be hard, new pronouns, even moreso. Gender-neutral pronouns…
Read NowA Mixture of Red, White, and Blue Can Be Ugly
A Mixture of Red, White, and Blue Can Be Ugly by Ed Raymond [email protected] These Colors Can Produce Beautiful Flags or Ugly Bruises As…
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More-a-Loco and Trump Towers of Babble
By Ed Raymond [email protected] Donald Trump: A Social-Psycho-on-Path Reproducing MAGA Zombies I have been asking members of the Make Amerika Great Again (MAGA) cult…
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By Ed Raymond [email protected] How Many of Napoleon’s Hats Will Save Planet Earth for Homo Sapiens? Before I get into this week’s subject of…
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Robbing Peter, Paul – and Mary
By Ed Raymond [email protected] The Purpose of a College Education: Do We Work to Live or Live to Work? Because of the increasing costs…
Read NowThe squeaky wheel gets the grease
When people get together, there’s power – and do I dare say hope?
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Thugs, Thieves, and Theocrats
By Ed Raymond [email protected] “Trump Cabinet Member: ‘If a Document Has a Staple in It, Don’t Give It to Trump.’” Among the most fascinating…
Read NowBack-to-Back Barbarians
By Ed Raymond [email protected] Well, Whaddaya Know! Barbarians Have the Same Life Expectancy! A barbarian is defined as one belonging to a people or…
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Of Pitchforks and Penthouses
By Ed Raymond [email protected] Everybody Needs to Understand Critical Economic and Racial Facts Once in a great while one runs across an innocent-looking article…
Read NowEyes for Eyes and Babies for Babies
By Ed Raymond [email protected] How many centuries have religions been fighting each other in the Middle East? In the early foggy, frosty morning of…
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Billionaires and Bidenomics
By Ed Raymond [email protected] Remember When “Mission Impossible” Instructions Self-Destructed in Five Seconds? Some Democrats, including a few of his closest advisors, are forgetting…
Read NowThe horses of Theodore Roosevelt National Park Need Your Help
If you are a taxpayer, these are your horses. If you are one of many fans of the Theodore Roosevelt National Park (TRNP) horses,…
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Asexual Avocados
By Ed Raymond [email protected] Were the Mushrooms You Ate With Your Steak Asexual or Bisexual? British plant scientists made a discovery while investigating why…
Read NowCruelty and Human Nature
By Ed Raymond [email protected] Is Cruelty a Part of Nature—or Is It Just Part of Human Nature? Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman has been…
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The challenges of modern journalism
We see papers shrinking, fewer reporters turning up, and tight deadlines for stories, all while competing with whatever conjecture and opinion exists online.
Read NowBiden and the Second Coming
By Ed Raymond [email protected] Eighty Million Eligible Voters Did Not Vote in the DSA in 2020. Why Not? In the first week of February,…
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Everybody’s Going to Be ‘Hot’
By Ed Raymond [email protected] If Homo Sapiens Do Nothing About Climate-Change, We Will Be Dead Saps Soon Animals started to develop from plants 1.8…
Read NowThe strenuous past, the way forward
Thank you, Reader readers, for 29 fulfilling years Chugging along, The Little Newspaper That Could commences its 30th volume and year with this issue.…
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Conjoined Country
By Ed Raymond [email protected] Art: José Guadalupe Posada, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Can Our Conjoined Democracy Be Separated and Survive? A two-headed western rat…
Read NowWars of Chimps and Homo Sapiens
By Ed Raymond [email protected] At What Evolutionary Level Do Animals Make War on Each Other? Many animals are territorial but only a few will…
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Navigating safely in times of terror
As someone in her thirties, I’m still at an age to have had active shooter drills as part of my school experience in Fargo.…
Read NowiHomo Sapiens: Love and Hate
By Ed Raymond [email protected] Linus: ‘I Love Mankind, It’s People I Can’t Stand’ On August 8, two brothers, 8 and 9, were shot to…
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