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by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | August 17th, 2022
…gadfly@gmail.com What Kind of a United States Do You Want in 2022: Diverse Democracy or MAGA?The 2022 elections will likely determine whether the American poor and middle class will be as powerful in 2023 as the wealthy fundamentalist Christion White Nationalists and Dominionists that currently use the courts and laws…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | August 6th, 2022
…gadfly@gmail.com Remembering Two Men Whimpering in the Broken Jaw of Our Lost KingdomIn 1284, Hamelin, Germany hired a rat killer to rid the residents of the flea carrier bringing them the Black Plague. For some reason, the mayor refuses to pay him after he supposedly accomplishes the task. The rat…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | July 24th, 2022
…gadfly@gmail.com God’s Knitting of the Human Body Is Rapidly UnravelingIf you get a shiny new quarter as change in 2022, see whose image is on it. Astronaut Sally Ride rode the space shuttle Challenger in 1983 and 1984. She was the first American woman to do so. She retired from…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | July 20th, 2022
…gadfly@gmail.com Hey! Hey! Supremes! How Many Men, Women, and Kids Did You Kill Today?Life in a complex, advanced society can be very hazardous to your health. We generally kill more than 40,000 a year in traffic accidents, many when freedom-loving drivers and passengers fly through windshields and open doors because…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | July 3rd, 2022
…gadfly@gmail.com Christianity Has Fallen Off the CrossCorky and I have classified ourselves as faithful Christians for nearly ninety years, but we both have reached the point where a solid majority of “Christians” no longer seems to agree with the teachings of Jesus Christ. The good Christians who are left, wherever…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | June 28th, 2022
…gadfly@gmail.com Remember: Eighty-Five Million Eligible Voters Did Not Vote in 2020There’s only one person in Washington who can convince young voters of every color to go to the polls in 2020 en masse and vote for Democrats at every level of government—and he’s not even a Democrat. He is the…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | June 19th, 2022
…gadfly@gmail.com A Most Important Question: How Do You Deprogram 52 Million Cult Members?In a recent poll, 52 million Trumplicans of the gun cult said they were willing to sacrifice several thousand U.S. children each year in order to keep the Second Amendment on the books. On top of this alarming…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | June 19th, 2022
…gadfly@gmail.com Congress: Why Does Australia Have Only One-Tenth the COVID Death Rate?The opening sentence about the COVID virus in “The Last Word” in THE WEEK magazine is shocking: “If the United States had the same death-rate as Australia, about 900,000 lives would have been saved.” Other countries such as Japan,…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | June 4th, 2022
…gadfly@gmail.com First, because of the intractability of the gun culture for forty years, and a Supreme Court that bases its firearm opinions on the flintlock musket, I propose that public K-12 and college and university professors in the country tell Congress: pass all necessary and reasonable gun safety and control…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | May 28th, 2022
…gadfly@gmail.com Taking a Break From Politics While Watching Bird BrainsAs a farm boy I always enjoyed feeding our animals and birds after helping to prepare the foods they all enjoyed, whether it was corn on the cob for pigs or silage chopped up for the cows for their winter buffet.…