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by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | March 13th, 2023
…gadfly@gmail.comWe Have Had a Mix of Disaster, Chaos, Rotting Capitalism and Socialism for 400 Years Capitalism leads to a branch of slavery where men and women are in bondage to the plutocrats and oligarchs who have acquired monopolies—unless socialist programs are utilized to restrain economic inequality. We don’t have property…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | March 4th, 2023
…gadfly@gmail.comThe 14th Century Wife of Bath Would Appreciate a 21st Century Spa So would her creator, Geoffrey Chaucer, a justice of the peace and customs agent who wrote the first novel, The Canterbury Tales, in Middle English, in the 14th century. It was his plan to write 120 stories told…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | February 4th, 2023
…gadfly@gmail.comCan a Sick Society Recover from Plagues, Pandemics, and Pandemonium?I wanted to check the dictionary definition of “pandemic”: Widespread; general; universal. In medicine: Epidemic over an especially wide geographic area. A pandemic disease. Just under pandemic was the word “pandemonium”: “Any place characterized by uproar and noise. The capital of…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | January 29th, 2023
…gadfly@gmail.com To ND Republican Legislators: Ignorance and Religion Is no Excuse As a Minnesotan for my first 22 years and as an eight-year letter-winner in baseball and football in my high school and college years, I am a fan of University of Minnesota athletics. I particularly watched Golden Gopher football…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | January 21st, 2023
…gadfly@gmail.comShould Politicians Be Arrested for Practicing Medicine Without a License?After World War II and the horrors of the Holocaust, European playwrights who survived the war wrote plays about man’s existentialism and had the characters express what happens to a society, country, or world when human existence lacks total meaning or…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | January 8th, 2023
…gadfly@gmail.com It’s Time to Kill a Virus that Has Killed a Million and Costs the U.S. $35 Million a DayLegend Wheeler of Washington, D.C. found his father’s loaded gun in the living room of the family’s apartment, pulled the trigger, and killed himself while his father was in court for…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | January 7th, 2023
…gadfly@gmail.com To ND Legislators: Are Women Equal to Men and Shall All LBGTQ+ be Stoned?It is well known that many politicians who have played doctor when toddlers continue to play the same game and vote on medical and scientific issues they know nothing about after being elected to public office.…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | December 27th, 2022
…gadfly@gmail.comWhy Is the World Such a Terrible Mess When We Have 4,200 Religions?‘Twas said Hitler was kind to his secretary and was inconsolable when one of his favorite dogs died. How did he feel about killing six million of the eleven million Jews living in Europe, as well as starting…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | December 18th, 2022
…gadfly@gmail.com The Donald Is Playing ‘Mac the Knife’There have been several centuries-old historical records when men and boys were intentionally castrated to provide a specific social function. The Republican Party and Donald Trump have just started another record. Eunuchs in the reign of Semiramis 4,000 years ago served as servants…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | December 15th, 2022
…gadfly@gmail.com What Is Abortion Really About? Religion, Science, Economics, PoliticsIn a recent cartoon, God is perched on a beautiful cloud and is looking down at a chicken and an egg ready to cross a road. The caption is: “Remember, you must both leave at the same time!” Is God attempting…