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by HPR Contributor | Culture | May 12th, 2016
…gadfly. By 1886, Houston had sold all his patents to Eastman, for a collective total of $48,000, according to museum records. Eastman, on the other hand, created a monopoly, eventually wiping out all major competition through shrewd business deals and strong-armed lawsuits. Thomas Edison, the inventor of the light bulb…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | March 24th, 2016
…The battle between Republican crony-casino capitalism and Democratic socialismAfter listening to Republican candidates for the 2016 presidential nomination claim “America is going to hell” and other undesirable places, President Barack Obama in a recent magazine article counterclaimed: “For all of our warts, the United States has clearly been a force for good in…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | March 18th, 2016
…A New Listing In The Real Estate Business Because of the “new” world economy there’s an increasing gaggle of golden geese millionaires and billionaires building monster homes on exclusive streets in cities and country estates around the world. Many want to continue to live in London, Europe’s financial center. They want to…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | February 11th, 2016
…What makes billionaires think they know what’s best for society? Could it be lots of money?When 2,500 billionaires and global leaders met in Davos, Switzerland, in January of 2016 to discuss who was going to get the largest slices of the economic pies baking in the ovens of capitalism, the…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | January 28th, 2016
…The world is becoming a better place—but are we becoming a better people?The other night I watched James Billington of the Library of Congress award 82-year-old Willie Nelson the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. I am not a fan of country music, Willie’s main talent, but he…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | December 4th, 2015
…Of Toilets, Planned Parenthood, and Life-Saving Cell ResearchNeil deGrasse Tyson, perhaps our most articulate spokesman of what science is, outlines what it is in two relatively short sentences in his Huffington Post blog: “Science distinguishes itself from all other branches of human pursuit by its power to probe and understand…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | November 24th, 2015
…What Happens When a Woman “Sculpts Her Universe?”Roman Catholic Sister Joan Chittister of the Benedictine Order should have been called by Pope Francis to lecture the recent Vatican synod, composed of about 400 bachelor bishops and cardinals and seven married couples, on what role women should play in the church.…
by HPR Staff | News | November 24th, 2015
…Hall"I’m thankful to be alive at 83 and that I have a great partner of 61 years, need to get up only 2-3 times at night, have most of my faculties, and can bitch, moan, and I have a good day every day.” - Ed Raymond, The Gadfly gadfly
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | November 20th, 2015
…This Is the Way Our Empire Ends—Not With a Bang but a WhimperT.S. Eliot in his poem “The Hollow Men” muses about “This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms,” describing how men and politicians react to the end of empires. At the end of the poem he signs off: “This…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | October 1st, 2015
…A Black Man Who Wants To Eat At The Dining Room Table All Of The TimeSince the institutional murder of New York City’s Eric Garner for selling loose cigarettes, the institutional murder of Detroit’s 12-year-old Tamir Rice for loitering in a park, the institutional murder of Baltimore’s Freddie Gray after…