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by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | May 3rd, 2017
…The absolute destruction of the American dreamIt has become commonplace. The majority of college graduates in the United States now are forced to move back home to their parent’s basements, sometimes for more than a decade, because the 2016 graduating class is the most indebted in history. They might make…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | April 12th, 2017
…Random thoughts of our great leaderOur leader does not particularly like Republicans. They are crooks who helped ruin the country. The mainstream news media is the enemy of the American people. The Clintons were terrible for the country. When we invaded Iraq we should have taken all of the oil…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | April 5th, 2017
…Where is a Socrates when you really need him?I was born in 1932 during the Great Depression. I was brought up in a tiny farmhouse without electricity or plumbing. I walked two miles to a little country school for eight years, uphill both ways, of course. So many fascinating things…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | March 29th, 2017
…What does a comma cost? Sometimes, $10 millionWe may be in the middle of March Madness basketball in the United States, but nothing can surpass the madness we are dealing with in national and international politics, particularly since King Donald ascended the White House throne. After months of hard investigative…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | March 22nd, 2017
…How can we be so stupid?So here we go again with healthcare costs. Doctors once were paid pigs, chickens, and veggies for delivering babies. But now we have $10 Tylenols, $1,000-a-day pills, $10,000-a-day hospital rooms, $100,000 surgeries, $300,000-a-year drug protocols, and $500,000 organ transplants. We are the only industrialized country…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | March 15th, 2017
…Living in the eye of the wealth hurricaneAn old Cree Indian prophecy may outline what our future looks like: “When all the trees have been cut down, when all the animals have been hunted, when all the waters have been polluted, when all the air is unsafe to breathe, only…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | March 8th, 2017
…Is it really high noon all over the country?The inconvenient truth of unintended consequences has struck again. The National Rifle Association, under the leadership of top-gun Wayne LaPierre, once described by New York newspapers as “the craziest man on earth,” has been pushing for every kind of gun-carrying scheme, with…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | March 1st, 2017
…Onward, science soldiers, marching off to war—to fight ‘alternative’ factsAfter just a month of the reign of King Donald the First, about 1,800 of our top scientists registered their frustration with the unscientific mess in the White House and Congress by publicly protesting the administration’s actions in Boston’s…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | February 22nd, 2017
…North Dakota bigotry, a national one-week strike, and plutocratic plunderingFirst, a rant about the Republican North Dakota Legislature. There’s no doubt there are about 70,000 North Dakotans you consider to be second-class citizens. They are your gay brothers and sisters, your aunts and uncles, your neighbors, your co-workers and your…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | February 15th, 2017
…The game is riggedLast year 25 American hedge fund managers, whose income tax rate is about half of what their secretaries pay, made enough billions to fully pay the salaries of over 450,000 teachers. Thirsty and hungry at Super Bowl 51 this year? A glass of beer was $12 and…