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by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | April 19th, 2020
…Hey! Hey! Hey! Supremes! How Many Badgers Did You Kill Today?We are in the middle of a deadly COVID-19 pandemic that may last years, but we have been attacked for 244 years by another pandemic which started in Philadelphia when 56 white guys signed a proclamation that “all men are…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | April 5th, 2020
…The 14th Century Black Plague Started Something Beyond Thoughts And PrayersI see Donald the Lyin’ King has decided that Easter will not be a good time to fill churches—but maybe April 30 will be. King Donald had talked so much about the virus and April he reminded me of the…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | March 29th, 2020
…Fact: In 1979 We Had 19.5 Million Manufacturing Jobs; Today, 12 MillionThat’s just one of the startling statistics revealed in two books reviewed by Helen Epstein in the New York Review of Books. The titles indicate the subject: “Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism” by Anne Case and…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | March 18th, 2020
…Why, It’s Joe Biden, Stumbling Through Debates and Billionaire’s PocketsBrian Michelz and his wife Sarah in Madison, Wisconsin are saddled with medical and college student debt, and like half the families in the United States, can’t come up with $400 to cover an emergency although both are working, she as…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | March 4th, 2020
…Here’s Why We Need Single-Payer Medicare-For-AllUtah teacher Ann Lovell flies to San Diego and then is escorted across the border to Tijuana every few months to buy drugs to control her rheumatoid arthritis. Her flights are paid for by the state of Utah’s insurance carrier because, even with the flights…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | February 19th, 2020
…Two Devastating Swarms ‘Tis the season when billions of locusts swarm across Northern Africa and Southern Asia creating famines. A single swarm with as many as 70 billion who transform themselves from avoiding other locusts to a “gregarious” state, can cover 450 sq. miles of territory and consume as much…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | February 12th, 2020
…Who Will Be The First Trumplican To Stop Applauding?Watching the State of Trump, the National Prayer Breakfast for Trump, and the White House Celebration for the “perfect” Trump, I recalled a HPR column I wrote about Joe Stalin’s days as Russia’s Trump back on November 11, 2007 titled “An Archipelago…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | February 5th, 2020
…President Roosevelt: “The Malefactors of Great Wealth Are Against Worker Rights”He also believed that the Declaration of Independence declared that “the rights of the worker to a living wage, to reasonable hours of labor, to decent working and living conditions, and to freedom of thought and speech and industrial representation—-in…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | January 29th, 2020
…art by Mark RobinsonThe Crazy Nutcase In the Basement Is Now Presiding In The Oval officeThere is no doubt in many minds that the impeachment of King Donald and the 2020 presidential election are the two most consequential actions in the 224-year history of the United States because we have…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | January 22nd, 2020
…Whatta Deal! A Heart Transplant Only Runs $1,698,831.13!Ten years ago our life expectancy plateaued—and then we started to lose years of life. Every other industrialized country has gained years. A study claims this has happened because of drug overdoses, suicides, alcohol-related diseases, and obesity. The age group 25-64 is dying…