Gadfly 2019 (page 2) - High Plains Reader Fargo, ND

Male Ignorance

by Ed Raymond | Jun 26, 2019

Sexual Ignorance: Like Lightning, It Can Strike AnywhereThere has been a spate of laws restricting or eliminating abortions in over a dozen states, a…

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Are Demons In First Class?

by Ed Raymond | Jun 19, 2019

From Kerosene Lamp To Drone DeliveriesThe world continues to be a very exciting place for an adolescent who spent his evenings after milking my…

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American Prophet

by Ed Raymond | Jun 12, 2019

Bob Dylan: “You Better Start Swimmin’ Or You’ll Sink Like A Stone”I was shocked when Hibbing native Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize…

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Are We Living ‘Normal?’

by Ed Raymond | Jun 5, 2019

Of Miscarriages, Gold Toilets, And Homophobia

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An American Enema

by Ed Raymond | May 29, 2019

Why Does A Once-Free Drug Now Cost $375,000 A Year? Easy In The U.S.!It was only a matter of time. It had to happen.…

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‘All Dead’ Said the Little Girl

by Ed Raymond | May 22, 2019

Guns, Lockdowns, and Panic ButtonsThe girl is now a seventh grader at Sandy Hook Elementary. In 2012 she was the only survivor of her…

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Androgenism and The 800-meter Dash

by Ed Raymond | May 15, 2019

Human Life Is More Interesting Than EverLife is so much more fascinating than just 25 years ago. There’s something that tantalizes me every day.…

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Cultural Stagnation

by Ed Raymond | May 8, 2019

Will we ever be done with religious bullies?Unless the scientists are terribly wrong, life on Planet Earth started about 3.8 million years ago. At…

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American individualism? A myth

by Ed Raymond | May 1, 2019

The rising tide of Kardashian philosophyI have followed the life of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar since he was 18-year-old Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor covering black civil rights…

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Ask your Congress

by Ed Raymond | Apr 24, 2019

There is more work in Congress than just getting re-elected While doing our state and federal income taxes last week, I took a break…

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Americans In Trash

by Ed Raymond | Apr 17, 2019

The Nordic ModelDr. Thea Hunter, a graduate of Columbia University and an adjunct professor of history at a number of elite colleges and universities,…

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A Continuum of Cons

by Ed Raymond | Apr 10, 2019

The Gadfly

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Atheists 1, “Christian” Imperialists 0

by Ed Raymond | Apr 3, 2019

Are Modern Religions Straying Away From God?When Christians were challenging the teaching of the “new” science of evolution in the 1925 Scopes trial, the…

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Animals Have Large Brains—Too

by Ed Raymond | Mar 27, 2019

After All, With A 20 Pound Brain, What Does A Sperm Whale Know?Perhaps because I was a farm kid surrounded by spiders, horses, geese,…

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American Failure-Extreme Capitalism

by Ed Raymond | Mar 13, 2019

The Battle Between Extreme Capitalism And Democratic SocialismAfter Vice-President Mike Pence representing racial and extreme capitalism ended his scathing rant about democratic socialism at…

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A—sexual To Z—ygote

by Ed Raymond | Mar 6, 2019

Let’s Study The Difference Between Monosexual And PlurisexualIf we are interested at all in the science of genetics we are running into the terms…

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Any Day We Shoot Over 380

by Ed Raymond | Feb 27, 2019

– How Many People Have To Die For The Second Amendment?There are no licensed federal gun dealers in our capital of Washington D.C., but…

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Chang and Eng

by Ed Raymond | Feb 20, 2019

The Monsters Of The MidwayBack in college eons ago I and a fellow footballer spent half a summer employed by a concessions company that…

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Anti-Life America

by Ed Raymond | Feb 13, 2019

The Gadfly

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A Feudal System Resurrection

by Ed Raymond | Feb 6, 2019

The World Economic Forum Meets Two CaravansAs 2,000 private jets carrying the world’s oligarchs, plutocrats, CEOS, millionaires and billionaires to Davos, Switzerland where they…

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