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by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | August 9th, 2017
…The world has decided King Donald has made us irrelevantFareed Zakaria of the Washington Post and CNN while on assignment in London had a Nigerian man approach him and say with a mixture of outrage and amusement: “Your country has gone crazy. I’m from Africa. I know crazy, but I…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | July 26th, 2017
…A reasonable conclusion: “We should have killed our baby.”For some unfathomable reason, some people think they are immortal, that death is not a part of life. Our culture tends to teach us to avoid the topic of death as if it will never come. We really get uncomfortable discussing our…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | April 26th, 2017
…Are we nearing the end of the human race?Moore’s Law is a rather simple observation made by Gordon Moore back in 1965 when he founded Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel, two very important computer chip makers. He remarked that he thought the number of transistors in a circuit would double about…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | April 19th, 2017
…gadfly-type libertarian politician who only occasionally makes sense.Many Silicon Valley billionaires say they owe a great deal to Ayn Rand. Steve Jobs, the nutty genius of Apple who was a tightly wrapped bundle of nervous energy and thirsts for power, and co-founder Steve Wozniak used “Atlas Shrugged” as a guide…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | January 25th, 2017
…How to make America a third-world country againA national columnist asked the question, “Did we really elect Donald Trump to be president of the United States?” Even with all the investigations pertaining to Russian intervention, voter repression, Wikileaks exposure of Democratic Party e-mails and the FBI director’s letters to Congress…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | October 12th, 2016
…gadfly@gmail.com Whatever happened to the Christian religion?On Sunday, October 2, our prayer of the day at Cormorant Lutheran Church was: “Benevolent, merciful God: When we are empty, fill us. When we are weak in faith, strengthen us. When we are cold in love, warm us, that with fervor we may love…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | June 29th, 2016
…A homicidal suicide bomber-shooterBecause of deaths by firearms, drugs, and car crashes, Americans live two years less than our fellow humans in Western Europe or Japan, the two areas that lead the world in lifespan. There are several factors, but the main one is early death by firearms. Each year…
by HPR Contributor | Culture | May 12th, 2016
…gadfly. By 1886, Houston had sold all his patents to Eastman, for a collective total of $48,000, according to museum records. Eastman, on the other hand, created a monopoly, eventually wiping out all major competition through shrewd business deals and strong-armed lawsuits. Thomas Edison, the inventor of the light bulb…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | March 24th, 2016
…The battle between Republican crony-casino capitalism and Democratic socialismAfter listening to Republican candidates for the 2016 presidential nomination claim “America is going to hell” and other undesirable places, President Barack Obama in a recent magazine article counterclaimed: “For all of our warts, the United States has clearly been a force for good in…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | March 18th, 2016
…A New Listing In The Real Estate Business Because of the “new” world economy there’s an increasing gaggle of golden geese millionaires and billionaires building monster homes on exclusive streets in cities and country estates around the world. Many want to continue to live in London, Europe’s financial center. They want to…