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by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | October 25th, 2017
…The madness and sins of the world’s seven ’great’ religionsRobert Bolt’s play “A Man For All Seasons” covers the true story of a principled and religious chancellor of England named Sir Thomas More who eventually lost his head because he refused to approve the divorce of King Henry VIII from…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | October 18th, 2017
…God didn’t save six million Jews from the Holocaust eitherWe have become so used to mass killings by firearms in the “United” States that they are generally ignored, except for the really unusual or big ones like Texas Tower, San Ysidro McDonald’s, Luby’s Cafeteria, Columbine, Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech, Aurora…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | October 11th, 2017
…I’m a white son-of-a-bitch who will always take a knee for M/Sgt McNairIn 1938 I entered First Grade in District 54 in Morrison County, Minnesota, a little white country school with a total of 23 students in eight grades and two two-holers out back. That’s where I was first introduced…
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…