Americans At The Precipice
Living Paycheck To PaycheckThe French “yellow vest” is required for each driver in case of an accident. It is now the symbol of income-inequality…
Read NowGadfly · 2018
Affluenza
by Ed Raymond | Dec 12, 2018
What happens if conspicuous consumption becomes global?The latest National Geographic has an editorial “The Global Peril of Inequality” by UCLA Professor Jared Diamond which…
Read NowEmpty Pews and Collection Plates
by Ed Raymond | Dec 5, 2018
What Is The Fastest Growing Religion?Recent surveys by the Pew Research Center and the Hartford Institute for Religious Research indicate that one in four…
Read NowAfter 232 Years, Are We Equal Yet?
by Ed Raymond | Nov 28, 2018
Will Knowledge Ever Win The Political Sweepstakes? One might assume that when slave owner Thomas Jefferson thought of the proposition that “all men are…
Read NowCrystal Night And The Wolves Of Hate
by Ed Raymond | Nov 14, 2018
The Third Reich—And Making A Country Great AgainI was in first grade in country school on November 9, 1938 when the Nazis, in avenging…
Read NowGay Followers Of Christ Finally Meet
by Ed Raymond | Nov 7, 2018
Do Muslims and Christians have to wear gloves to play football?Gene and Matthew were both young teenagers when they realized they were gay. They…
Read NowFaces In The Trump Crowds
by Ed Raymond | Oct 31, 2018
When anarchy is loosed upon the world A poem by William Butler Yeats perfectly catches the divisiveness of American politics in the Age of…
Read NowAnti-science politicians
by Ed Raymond | Oct 24, 2018
TRUMP “HOAX” DESTROYS MEXICO BEACH, FLORIDA AT 157 MILES PER HOUR!This headline could have appeared in The Donald’s favorite publication, his revered source of…
Read NowGoodbye Democracy!
by Ed Raymond | Oct 17, 2018
How today’s “christians” hammered the nails into the hands and feet of christ Historian Christopher Browning, who has spent a lifetime studying the Holocaust,…
Read NowAre Our Ponies Blind?
by Ed Raymond | Oct 10, 2018
Is Life Just Keeping House On The Deck Of The Titanic? As a lifetime reader of thousands of books and a collector of thousands,…
Read NowFree Speech Is Very Expensive
by Ed Raymond | Oct 3, 2018
The modern KKK and Kochkopus are choking American democracy Kavanaugh lost his Kool and Kracked under pressure. I can spell. His rant before the…
Read NowAmazon’s Bezos Ain’t Hamlet
by Ed Raymond | Sep 26, 2018
To pee or not to pee—that is a question a worker needs to answer The fact that the richest man in the world is…
Read NowAngry black cattle on the white ranch
by Ed Raymond | Sep 19, 2018
We failed to educate the players of “flag” footballI passed all of the American history courses in Morrison County District 54, Little Falls High…
Read NowA Flock of Precariats
by Ed Raymond | Sep 12, 2018
The dilemma of spenders and producersThe Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Vanderbilts all killed workers who protested their wages and working conditions. They gained so much…
Read NowA World of “Fake” Men
by Ed Raymond | Sep 5, 2018
Let’s start with a riddleA car containing a father and his teenage son failed to make a curve and hit a tree. The father…
Read NowWhat Is Democratic Socialism?
by Ed Raymond | Aug 29, 2018
Just How Long Will Our Democracy Last?A truth hit me the other night while Corky and I were watching Simone Biles defend her national…
Read NowPQ: “Who is creating all of these socialists? Of course, it’s American capitalists!”
by Ed Raymond | Aug 22, 2018
Cliodynamics and History
Read NowAmerican Dream Bye-Bye
by Ed Raymond | Aug 15, 2018
Well, Mr. President, Have You No Sense Of Decency Sir, At Long Last? We might have another flag debate in this country. We still…
Read NowAbortion—Cow Dung, Religion, And Technology
by Ed Raymond | Aug 8, 2018
Actually The Times Have Been A-Changin’ Since The Big BangBob Dylan did a terrific job reminding all of us that “the times they are…
Read NowAmerican Paychecks
by Ed Raymond | Aug 1, 2018
1978-2018: Average CEO Pay Up 64% To $13.94 Million Average Worker Pay Up 2.6% To $38,613Since the Bush Great Recession ended in 2009 corporate…
Read NowAmerican Exceptionalism
by Ed Raymond | Jul 25, 2018
The Gadfly
Read NowAmerican Coyotes and Fat Cats
by Ed Raymond | Jul 18, 2018
The Gadfly
Read NowAre Americans ‘Good?’
by Ed Raymond | Jul 11, 2018
Can It Happen Here?So it has finally come to this. From the normal of a century to the abnormal of the last 30 months,…
Read NowAgeless Jim Crows
by Ed Raymond | Jun 27, 2018
How Long is the Civil War Going to Last?The American Civil War officially ended slavery in 1865 and supposedly freed the slaves. But what…
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