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by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | May 9th, 2018
…A Swift Solution for PovertyIn response to a column I had written about economic inequality in the United States, a reader emailed me about her experiences. After growing up on a farm near a small Minnesota town, she began cleaning homes for upper-class doctors, politicians, and bankers in the state.…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | May 2nd, 2018
…So we have reached the stage where we have Little Rocket Man and the dotard Emperor Donald posing their fingers just slightly above nuclear buttons. To give you some solace, ‘tis said the Pentagon chiefs have removed the nuclear codes from the briefcase carried by a guy who follows our…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | April 18th, 2018
…Does That Old-Time Religion Signal The End Of Rational Thought?An incident about gender identity in the Maryland Legislature last week magnified a microcosm of what we are going through in the United States about religion in the Age of Trump. Republican Senator Bryan W. Simonaire of Anne Arundel Countyl, the…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | March 28th, 2018
…The beginning and end of two similar societiesA thousand years ago, Polynesians paddled across the Pacific to find new islands to settle. They landed on a tiny, lush, uninhabited island and called it “Te Pito O Te Henua” which means “the navel of the world.” And over 500 years ago,…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | March 21st, 2018
…Why is our life expectancy dropping?We don’t grow bananas in this country but we are rapidly becoming a banana republic. Because of prescription and illegal drug deaths, a firearms death rate 25 times any other developed country, a high suicide rate, and a health care system for the privileged that…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | March 7th, 2018
…When will the NRA gun cult and the gun lobby culture inherit the wind?It took National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre eight days to crawl out of his cult’s foxhole to answer the murder of 14 high school students and three teachers and the wounding of 14 others in six…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | February 28th, 2018
…The deafening sounds of silenceWhat have you heard from the Trumpistan gun lobby, the National Rifle Association, and members of The Best Congress Money Can Buy since the Parkland shooting?I thought of Simon and Garfunkel’s great song “The Sounds of Silence” while waiting for responses. Lines in the third stanza…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | February 21st, 2018
…When will we learn to share wealth?Last week I wrote about how many predictions made by Aldous Huxley in his 1932 book “Brave New World” were beginning to come true in 2018.When I read the toll to travel on Interstate 66 in northern Virginia last Tuesday morning reached $47.25 during…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | February 14th, 2018
…Do we finally have ‘beauteous mankind in a brave new world?’British philosopher and writer Aldous Huxley used a line of Miranda’s speech in Shakespeare’s play “The Tempest” as the title for his book about the future published in 1932: “O wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | January 26th, 2018
…Helen Grace JamesAccording to modern scientific research, over 1500 animal and human species have different gender identities while evolving. We have presently identified at least 60. Facebook offers its clients the right to identify up to 50 different gender identities. Many countries in the world have approved same-sex marriage, military…