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by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | June 12th, 2023
…gadfly@gmail.comWhy Is the Divided States of America the Most Unequal Society in the World?I have hundreds of favorite poems that mean much more to me than long-winded prose. My absolute favorite is T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” It contains the most depressing line about the human…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | June 4th, 2023
…gadfly@gmail.comCan Someone Tell Me Why Sneakers Sell for $1.5 to $2.2 Million a Pair? It has to be something other than quality. I shop for used books in thrift stores because I have discovered thick books given as gifts usually have not been read. Last week I picked up a…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | May 27th, 2023
…gadfly@gmail.comQuestion for 2024: Will a Billion Guns and a Quadrillion Bullets Make DSA Safer?Ever since Lucy fell out of an African tree 3.2 million years ago, animals have been designing new ways to kill each other. For the last 300,000 of those years, Homo sapiens have been inventing more efficient…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | May 21st, 2023
…gadfly@gmail.comFargo Superintendent and School Board Know Right from WrongBack in the 1950s when Corky and I lived under Jim Crow laws in Virginia and North Carolina, we were angered to see our Black Marines and neighbors forced by law to walk in the streets of Jacksonville and Parkfairfax instead of…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | May 17th, 2023
…gadfly@gmail.comDo American Nazis Know the Angel of Death Operated on 3,000 Twins?I was twelve years old when pictures of thousands of dead, naked, starved Jews stacked like cordwood in neat rows or dumped in concentration camp streets were published in the world press. Because of the absolute horrors of the…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | May 8th, 2023
…gadfly@gmail.comWhat’s Too Little and What’s Too Much? The DSA Is Famous for Both PositionsSchizophrenia is defined as “any of a group of psychotic reactions characterized by withdrawal from reality with highly variable accompanying affective behavioral and intellectual disturbances.” Well, this is a big country of more than 335 million people,…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | April 30th, 2023
…gadfly@gmail.comWhen a Spear and a Boomerang Equals a Computer and a SmartphoneEighteen years ago I wrote a column “Graduating for Life” about Australian aborigine teenagers at age 13 either dying during their graduation ceremonies or surviving the dangerous environment and becoming an adult in their tribe. With the battles about…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | April 30th, 2023
…gadfly@gmail.comWill we goose-step backward with the GOP or stumble forward with Democrats?Two hundred years ago English poet William Wordsworth wrote a 14-line sonnet “The World Is Too Much With Us” with these opening lines: “The world is too much with us, late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | April 6th, 2023
…gadfly@gmail.com Who’d a Thunk It? The Reincarnation and Resurrection of a Third Political Party!In 1853, a secret American society known as the Order of the Star Spangled Banner abandoned its secrets by transforming itself into a political party known at first as the American Party. Members refused to talk about…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | April 1st, 2023
…gadfly@gmail.com Can We Regenerate Our Country by “Rediscovering the Lost Art of Tolerance?”Columnist Gary Abernathy says our enormous diversity of identity in our sweeping multiculturalism makes it difficult to agree with groups present in the Divided States of America. We have hundreds of organizations, groups, and religions with which to…