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by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | August 17th, 2021
…gadfly@gmail.com19 August 2021 Health Care Is a Right, Not a PrivilegeShubham Chandra’s father, a New York City cardiologist, died of COVID-19 in his hospital after spending seven months in one of its beds. Shubham quit his well-paying job in a media startup to manage the insurance coverage and the hundreds…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | August 8th, 2021
…gadfly@gmail.comThere’s Nothing but Trouble in the City on the PotomacWhen “The Chosen One,” Donald “Jesus” Trump, arrived at the city on the Potomac River in 2017 to swindle the “losers” for at least for four years and maybe forever, his ascent to attack and loot the treasury of the United…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | August 2nd, 2021
…gadfly@gmail.com 05 August 2021Sometimes Facts Lead to Theories. Sometimes They Lead to More Facts.On 21 May 1946, veteran Canadian physicist and chemist Louis Slotin, working in our Manhattan Project in New York, was experimenting with uranium and plutonium cores to determine their critical mass values. Pushing the cores together with…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | July 26th, 2021
…gadfly@gmail.com29 July 2021This Is About the Religious-Rich-QAnon-White Supremacist-Trumplican CultThere are hundreds of thousands of cults in countries and societies around the world that have played or are playing a role in the formation or disintegration of a group or government. Therefore, the definition of a cult has to be quite…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | July 18th, 2021
…gadfly@gmail.com22 July 2021 Bosom Buddies: Genghis and BernieIn the 13th Century Genghis Khan of Mongolia ruled the largest empire the world has ever seen: from the Pacific Ocean to the borders of Europe and from Northern Siberia to Southern Persia. His government, known as The Golden Horde, took in many…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | July 11th, 2021
…gadfly@gmail.con15 July 2021 Looking Backward: 1887 to Brave New World, 632 After Ford We currently have three billionaires spending billions to leave planet Earth. Jeff Bezos of Amazon, the richest man in the world, will soon take a ride on his Blue Origin New Shepherd rocket with a passenger who…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | July 4th, 2021
…gadfly@gmail.com08 July 2021 Miranda Was Wrong: We Are Terribly Short Of ‘Goodly Creatures’Before I attack God, Catholics, evangelical Christians, and Trumplicans, I’ve got to attack the Supreme Court. The Court voted 8-1 that a foul-mouthed bratty teenaged cheerleader, with parents who want be “friends” instead of parents, had had her…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | June 27th, 2021
…gadfly@gmail.com01 July 2021 HecKKK, There’s No Racism in the Divided States of AmeriKa!Although I lived on Highway 27, four miles east of Little Falls, for my first 18 years, I didn’t learn until I was 89 that HW 27 actually was constructed on top of an Indian trail that had…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | June 20th, 2021
…gadfly@gmail.com24 June 2021 When Will Money Talk for the Very Last Time?I have never been a country music fan, but I have been a country “poet” fan for decades. As a vocalist, I have sung solos, in duets, trios, in male and mixed quartets, in madrigals, and in church, high…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | June 13th, 2021
…gadfly@gmail.com17 June 2021 Why Cooks Are Yelling “Flip Your Own Damn Burgers!”A June 3 headline in The Wall Street Journal caught my eye because it raved: “U.S. Economy’s Rebound is Without Historical Parallel.” I was shocked because I remembered a news story in The Guardian a few months ago that…