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by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | October 4th, 2017
…Norwegians know how to govern—just ask Ole and LenaSometimes we get the idea from Norwegian Ole and Lena jokes that “Norvegians” play with only 39 cards. There’s the one about Ole calling the airlines and asking how long it takes to fly from Minneapolis to Fargo. “Just a…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | September 27th, 2017
…A mixture of despair, extortion, life-saving treatments, and inequalityFifty-four-year-old Antony Marino of Wise, Virginia keeps a pair of needle-nosed pliers handy so he can pull out a rotting tooth that’s bothering him. He has never been to a dentist. Forty-nine-year-old Joyce Bays tenderizes the meat she eats with a hammer,…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | September 20th, 2017
…What kind of characters would charge $99 for a case of water?In the days before the solar eclipse safety glasses sold for $8.95 for a five-pack of certified glasses. The day before the eclipse the price was raised to $59. During Hurricane Harvey, some gas stations were charging $20 a…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | September 13th, 2017
…The four horses of the Apocalypse are running wild on the American plainsIn the last book of the New Testament, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ride around the world on their red, white, black, and pale horses representing Conquest, War, Famine, and Death. The rider of the white horse…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | September 6th, 2017
…Eight of our presidents staffed the White House with slavesSometime in the future we may teach real history, not reality history, not fake history. The truth is eight of our presidents staffed their White House with slaves personally owned by them—and ran a government from a capitol building mainly built…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | August 30th, 2017
…How you can earn $12 million a year in the United StatesWhen Martin Shkreli, who had raised the price of an AIDS drug called Daraprim 5,000 percent while he was CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, was arrested for eight counts of unrelated securities fraud, the court found it very difficult to…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | August 23rd, 2017
…Photo: Wikipedia: Regiment of Armaments surrender Battle of Moscow‘For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven’ The recent clashes between white supremacists and American ideals actually started hundreds of years ago in the Jewish pogroms of Europe and Russia, and when the first black…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | August 16th, 2017
…Can we learn anything after we know it all?There’s a 100-page book written by a high school dropout that should be read by all high schoolers, college education students, teachers, and politicians. Michael J.Fox of movie and TV fame wrote his little manifesto, “A Funny Thing Happened On The Way…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | August 2nd, 2017
…When have-it-alls and well-to-doers don’t want to share any of itThere’s a new novel out about the 19th Century Great Potato Famine, when Ireland lost one million of its population of eight million to starvation and disease, and two million to emigration to other countries, including many thousands to the…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | July 19th, 2017
…Three “great leaders” who might really screw up the worldIf you have had a chance to watch documentaries based on North Korean culture you had to notice that all citizens referred to 33-year-old Kim Jong Un as their “Great Leader” in interviews. His picture was always visible whether inside or…