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by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | February 2nd, 2021
…By Ed Raymond fargogadfly@gmail.comAre We Heading for ‘Double, Double, Toil and Trouble’?Shakespeare’s MacBeth is a play about chaos that results when a person in the human chain of being rises above his level of competence. In our society we call it the Peter Principle. We have just finished four years…
by Sabrina Hornung | Editorial | January 23rd, 2021
…By John Strand jas@hpr1.com21 January 2021Like most of you, we are relieved to be past 2020. What a crazy year! Yet, the reality is we all have our hands full going forward and some in our community are struggling to survive. Just like us here at HPR. First we shut…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | January 20th, 2021
…By Ed Raymond fargogadfly@gmail.comThe Ku Klux Klan Don’t Wear Hoods AnymoreIn a December column I wrote the following: “We are in the middle of dangerous times. We are on a knife’s edge of losing ‘it’.” “‘It’ stands for country.” On January 13, the day the House impeached Donald J. Trump,…
by Sabrina Hornung | Cinema | January 20th, 2021
…By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail.comTalented hyphenate Emerald Fennell, the season two “Killing Eve” showrunner, unleashes one of the most audacious and provocative films of the year with “Promising Young Woman,” the writer-director-producer’s feature debut. A pitch-black commentary on the unrelenting and insidious misogyny that keeps a tight grip on the culture even…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | January 13th, 2021
…By Ed Raymond fargogadfly@gmail.comWhere Do We Belong in God’s Universe?In the 16th century the dominant religious “theory” was that everything on the planet from God down to minerals and rocks were links in the Elizabethan Chain of Being. The earth that came from the disintegration of rocks was at the…
by Sabrina Hornung | Cinema | January 11th, 2021
…By Greg Carlsongregcarlson1@gmail27 December 2020Alicia Coombs is an archivist and the head of business affairs for the American Genre Film Archive in Austin, Texas. Outside of watching and collecting movies, she likes to drink coffee, read about cults, and turn down plans so she can hang out with her cats…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | January 11th, 2021
…By Ed Raymondfargogadfly@gmail.comThe Scientific Method, Darwin, and Religious ErosionPeople who study us and our surroundings use the five following methods to come to a conclusion, basing it on this scientific method: hypothesis, observation, prediction, experiment, and confirmation. As an example, the experts in past pandemics used this scientific method to…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | December 27th, 2020
…The Gadfly: Autopsy of a Political PartyEd Raymond fargogadfly@gmail.comWhy did Trump win Robeson County?The southeastern corner of North Carolina is a low-lying area in one of the poorest sections of the state. It is the home of the Lumbee Indians, the largest Indian tribe east of the Mississippi River. The…
by HPR Contributor | Last Word | December 18th, 2020
…By Will Blockaredsheep@gmail.comEDITOR’S NOTE: Will Block grew up around a therapist. The year 2020 has been mind-bending beyond belief. We need some humor in all this darkness. HPR reached out to Will and he delivered. Don’t worry. It’s tongue in cheek. Chill. Laughter makes for a good remedy. Enjoy! 1.…
by Raul Gomez | Rubber Chicken | December 18th, 2020
…By Will Blockaredsheep@gmail.comEDITOR’S NOTE: Will Block grew up around a therapist. The year 2020 has been mind-bending beyond belief. We need some humor in all this darkness. HPR reached out to Will and he delivered. Don’t worry. It’s tongue in cheek. Chill. Laughter makes for a good remedy. Enjoy! 1.…