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by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | February 19th, 2022
…gadfly@gmail.com Should That Be a Question on the Job in the Richest Country in the World?Back in the 17th century, Hamlet in Shakespeare’s play mused about life and death, heaven, purgatory and hell, religion, and whether suicide might be an answer to all of life’s problems in the greatest soliloquy…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | January 29th, 2022
…gadfly@gmail.com The Roman Empire Lasted About 600 YearsHow long will the American Empire last? The English historian Edward Gibbons covered the rise and fall of the Roman Empire in six volumes published in 1788 and 1789. He covers 98 AD to 1590 AD in his epic work. Among his six…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | January 23rd, 2022
…gadfly@gmail.com Insanity, Racism, Bigotry, and Narcissism Have Created a New ReligionUp until the presidential election of 2016 there were an estimated 2,600 religious denominations in the world. On November 3, 2016, enough White Power Christians morphed into Trumpians to make 2,601. As a person who has been involved with both…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | January 20th, 2022
…gadfly@gmail.com Photo by Sabrina HornungWhen Will The Do-Nothing Congress Fund Parks for The Ninety-Nine Percent?The Raymonds are state and national park people. Our farm was four miles from Lindbergh State Park along the Mississippi River at Little Falls. We spent many a wonderful weekend and holiday under the huge pines…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | December 20th, 2021
…gadfly@gmail.com Is It the Common Good for Billionaires to Sail $500 Million Superyachts?The new Republican Party and Abraham Lincoln set out 161 years ago to save the United States from break up. James Russell Lowell, The Atlantic magazine’s first editor, wrote: “The Republicans know that true policy is gradual in…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | December 4th, 2021
…gadfly@gmail.com When Will It End? Gun Culture Has Killed 1,500,000 Americans in 50 YearsOn Thanksgiving Day, 25-year-old Philadelphian Edilberto Miguel Palaez Moctezuma was eating his turkey dinner with his family at their dining room table when a stray bullet hit him. He was quickly flown to a hospital where he…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | November 28th, 2021
…gadfly@gmail.comThe Spread of Luxury and Poverty in the Middle of a PandemicThe wealth gap between the top ten percent and bottom ninety percent has reached staggering proportions. In 1970 the wealthiest families owned about 20% of the nation’s household wealth. Today they own more than 35%. Elon Musk, who often…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | November 20th, 2021
…gadfly@gmail.comHow Did Germany Recover From Committing the Holocaust?I have been asking this question for decades after reading such books as “The Rise And Fall of the Third Reich” by William L. Shirer, still the definitive history of Hitler days, particularly 1932 to 1945. I was in eighth grade when Adolf…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | November 7th, 2021
…gadfly@gmail.com Walkabouts and TurnagainsThis is a Critical Race Fact. When Ronald Reagan started his campaign for the presidency at Philadelphia, Mississippi in 1979, he used the phrase “Let’s make America great again.” He didn’t add the words “by making it White again,” but he made it clear to Southern White…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | October 30th, 2021
…gadfly@gmail.com Should White Kids Know Ancestors Went to Two Barbecues on a Saturday?1. From a report on lynchings in Georgia: “On May 19, 1918, Mary Turner, a Black woman who was eight months pregnant, was lynched by a white mob from Brooks County , Georgia, at Folsom’s Bridge 16 miles…