A woman for all seasons
The Gadfly honors two extraordinary women: Dolly Parton and The Right Reverend Mariann Edgar Budde.
Read Moreby Ed Raymond | Nov 11, 2026
The Gadfly honors two extraordinary women: Dolly Parton and The Right Reverend Mariann Edgar Budde.
Read Moreby Ed Raymond | Oct 18, 2026
Mansions, superyahchts and…trees? American billionaires show off a new status symbol.
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by Ed Raymond | Sep 29, 2026
Roberts evidently has never read English poet John Donne’s line “No man is an island” on planet Earth — not even Trump, who thinks he was appointed by God to rule.
Read Moreby Ed Raymond | Sep 25, 2026
Shakespeare saw a comedy. We are seeing a tragedy of errors.
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by Ed Raymond | Aug 27, 2026
Trump: ‘No other president could do some of the sh*t I’m doing’
Read Moreby Ed Raymond | Aug 14, 2026
Remember when welfare mothers picked up checks in Cadillacs?
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by Ed Raymond | Aug 7, 2026
Why has the American dream turned into a nightmare?
Read Moreby Ed Raymond | Aug 3, 2026
The end of the American Empire will come from a big bang or little whimper.
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by Ed Raymond | Jul 28, 2026
Hegseth and Trump are the two leaders now throwing political grenades and fragging the democracy of the Divided States of America.
Read Moreby Ed Raymond | Jul 16, 2026
Surveys indicate that about ten percent of the world’s population are members of the LGBTQIA+ community, with one percent being transgender people.
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by Ed Raymond | Jul 9, 2026
If something can go terribly wrong, it will happen on planet Earth.
Read Moreby Ed Raymond | Feb 16, 2026
There’s wisdom in small communities.
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by Ed Raymond | Feb 9, 2026
Trump, his cabinet and advisors are documented liars who should be deported to Mars on Musk’s rockets.
Read Moreby Ed Raymond | Jan 19, 2026
A mind that snapped, cracked, and popped at one hundred I wasn’t going to read a long column...
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by Ed Raymond | Jan 12, 2026
By Ed Raymond We have millions of candidates from 108 Billion people on Earth With population...
Read Moreby Ed Raymond | Jan 5, 2026
By Ed Raymond ‘When the people have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich’ About...
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by Ed Raymond | Dec 29, 2025
[email protected] Will the human species destroy ourselves with bigotry and heat? The most...
Read Moreby Ed Raymond | Dec 9, 2025
Will he world’s billionaires gain enough human empathy to save the world from themselves?
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by Ed Raymond | Dec 2, 2025
[email protected] Why not put all of our gold at Fort Knox to common good? With all of the...
Read Moreby Ed Raymond | Dec 2, 2025
[email protected] Will the Divided States of America end up selling bananas? Sixty-nine...
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by Ed Raymond | Nov 24, 2025
[email protected] Democrats have MAGA, MAHA, MAWF, and Trumplicans to fight My favorite...
Read Moreby Ed Raymond | Nov 18, 2025
Christians have been hot and bothered by sex for 2,000 years and Catholic popes, cardinals, bishops, priests and nuns have been flummoxing Catholics
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by Ed Raymond | Nov 12, 2025
Both churches hate their non-white neighbors and love the smell of green money and what it can buy, like superyachts and thousand-dollar dinners.
Read Moreby Ed Raymond | Nov 3, 2025
John Roberts has demonstrated he is a white nationalist and a white supremacist.
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