Humor Cannot Be Bought
By Ed Raymond [email protected] How Many Things in This World Do Not Have a Price Tag? During my years at the Harvard of the…
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The sound of violence: ‘That’s our history!’
Governor Burgum, you’re embarrassing us. As Jason Aldean’s song “Try That in a Small Town” soars to number one on the billboard charts here…
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Hobson’s Options
By Ed Raymond [email protected] In What State or Country Do You Want to Live – and in What Century? In 16th Century Cambridge, England,…
Read NowA Pair of Blabbermouths
By Ed Raymond [email protected] Can You Imagine a Blabbering Nutcase and a “No Kidding—No Joke” Guy in 2024? There is little doubt that the…
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Cruising to Cataclysm
By Ed Raymond [email protected] Sliding to Hot Maelstroms on a Cool Six Waterslides Aboard an Icon Reality Show Las Vegas, Nevada, and its suburbs…
Read NowOne Morsel, Then the Whole World
By Ed Raymond [email protected] “We Are Swamped in the Wake of Yachts and Chopped Up by Propeller Blades” In the final episode of the…
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Aristotle Was Right
By Ed Raymond [email protected] The Supreme Court Is the Only Political Party in a Time Machine in Reverse Gear In his Book 1 of…
Read NowPride: the once and future riot
The homophobes and transphobes forget that queer folk have been through this before. I’m not going to lie. Celebrating Pride this year felt…different. Obviously,…
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A Tale of Contrasts and Similarities
By Ed Raymond [email protected] Maybe Someday Orcas Will Be Able to Tell Us Why They Attacked Our Boats In the first two weeks of…
Read NowLiving in Arrogant Valley
By Ed Raymond [email protected] In the DSA of Traumatized Homo Sapiens an Illiterate Sociopath was President According to experts, the Bible contains several versions…
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Dystopia or Utopia?
By Ed Raymond [email protected] Modern Rastafarianism, Ancient Ultra-Orthodox Jewry, and Today’s Protopia According to Donald Trump’s current “Big Lie,” we once lived in Utopia.…
Read NowDead Poets Mean Live Fascists
By Ed Raymond [email protected] Why Is the Divided States of America the Most Unequal Society in the World? I have hundreds of favorite poems…
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We ponder
By John Strand & Thomas Bixby Our Opinion: No way to delay, trouble comin’ every day. Whatever happened to dignity, empathy, and so much…
Read NowSneakers for Sale
By Ed Raymond [email protected] Can Someone Tell Me Why Sneakers Sell for $1.5 to $2.2 Million a Pair? It has to be something other…
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An All-American Virus
By Ed Raymond [email protected] Question for 2024: Will a Billion Guns and a Quadrillion Bullets Make DSA Safer? Ever since Lucy fell out of…
Read NowAmerican Zombies as Legislators
By Ed Raymond [email protected] Fargo Superintendent and School Board Know Right from Wrong Back in the 1950s when Corky and I lived under Jim…
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Will American Nazis Replace Us?
By Ed Raymond [email protected] Do American Nazis Know the Angel of Death Operated on 3,000 Twins? I was twelve years old when pictures of…
Read NowRound Pegs in Square Holes
Our opinion: Keep your chins up, class of 2023 As the school year draws to a close, this seems to be the time of…
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A Victim of Schizophrenia
By Ed Raymond [email protected] What’s Too Little and What’s Too Much? The DSA Is Famous for Both Positions Schizophrenia is defined as “any of…
Read NowA Three-Week Graduation Ceremony
By Ed Raymond [email protected] When a Spear and a Boomerang Equals a Computer and a Smartphone Eighteen years ago I wrote a column “Graduating…
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Anarchy or Democracy?
By Ed Raymond [email protected] Will we goose-step backward with the GOP or stumble forward with Democrats? Two hundred years ago English poet William Wordsworth…
Read NowGovernment Overreach
By Faye Seidler [email protected] The Theme of the 2023 ND Legislative Session In the North Dakota 2021 Special Session, Representative Bill Tviet introduced House Bill…
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From Disaster to Chaos to Savage
By Ed Raymond [email protected] Why Do Hospitals Charge $1,000 to $3,800 for CT Scans? Only the Shadow Knows! When I typed this headline about…
Read NowBorn-Again Know Nothings
By Ed Raymond [email protected] Who’d a Thunk It? The Reincarnation and Resurrection of a Third Political Party! In 1853, a secret American society known…
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