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by Tom Bixby | Culture | September 4th, 2019
…Gadfly, Ed Raymond. Without our writers, we might still exist but we’d be going through the motions. We wouldn’t be HPR and we wouldn’t deserve our Reader readers, the most important main guys.
by John Strand | Editorial | September 4th, 2019
…Gadfly, and Greg Carlson, film critic. Some of our writers are no longer alive, yet their legacy lives on in HPR’s pages over the years: Christopher P. Jacobs, long-time movies editor from Grand Forks; Bill Cosgrove, theatre reviewer; Janie Barnstuble, columnist; Annie Krapu, journalist; Mike Mahlum, Music writer; Lynn Gifford,…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | August 14th, 2019
…gadfly. His theme in his latest interview is that the United States is a “Third Country” mess because it’s involved in seemingly endless wars, has millions of people in economic despair, has a rising mortality rate that is worse than many third world countries, and has absolutely out-of-control gun violence.…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | September 26th, 2018
…gadfly” Paul Weyrich (way-rich!!!) told a group of conservative “Christians” that every person should not be allowed to vote. Weyrich then organized the conservative Heritage Foundation (now funded by the very rich Koch brothers at about $30 billion each!)) from tens of millions of dollars contributed by the One Percent…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | December 6th, 2017
…gadfly@gmail.comIf men will be boys, will women be girls?This sexual harassment thing is way beyond a minor kerfuffle, but it remains to be seen if it has finally reached the ultimate tipping point. Groping private parts, grabbing butts and breasts, the laying on of hands, sextexting, propositioning, and brute force…
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…