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by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | February 8th, 2017
…Congress diddles while the Earth wobblesThe first real study of the changes in the earth’s climate took place at Camp Century in Greenland, in 1960, which was supposedly built by the United States to test Arctic construction methods and carry out “other research.” Scientists from the engineering school of Toronto’s…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | February 1st, 2017
…Dear Mr. President:I was born in 1932 during the Great Depression on 180 acres of sand and rocks near Little Falls, Minnesota. I played Anti-Over and Pump-Pump-Pull-Away with my 20 schoolmates from surrounding farms in a little country school for eight years. I thought I was living in a great…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | January 18th, 2017
…A most unpopular Bible verseI have been listening to religious sermons for almost 78 years since I passed to my “age of reason” at seven, so I have “analyzed” about 4,000 sermons give or take, 20 years worth delivered by Roman Catholic priests and 58 years by Lutheran ministers. I…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | January 11th, 2017
…Sex chromosomes XX and XY just don’t cut it anymoreIn my last column of December, I wrote that the January 2017 special issue of National Geographic would be totally devoted to the issue of gender around the world. I have received my copy, so I have spent hours marking up…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | December 7th, 2016
…Things to considerIn this age of the disappearing middle-class and the greatest income inequality in our history, I see the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History is sponsoring a fund drive called KeepThem Ruby, to repair and preserve Minnesota’s own Judy Garland’s leather, sequined, and glass-beaded slippers from that epic…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | November 30th, 2016
…Is the white god creating a mighty white fortress?Six weeks and six days after Abraham Lincoln gave his second inaugural address on March 4, 1865 he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate sympathizer. His speech was a plea to end the division of the states that had cost…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | November 22nd, 2016
…Chaos and the American empireHarper’s Magazine in the last edition published a long list of items that were mistaken for guns in the hands of people killed by police in the United States since 2001.People were shot to death because they held hairbrushes, bottles of cologne, beer, and pills; toys…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | November 16th, 2016
…The longest civil war in historyOur American Civil War, brought on by white supremacists and the enslavement of millions of blacks, started in 1860, killed 620,000 of the Blue and Grey over five years of intensive fighting, and really hasn’t been concluded yet. The military part of the war was…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | November 9th, 2016
…Our Nobel Prize winner for literature recognizes changeI have to write this column a day before the election in order to make a publishing date, so it will be interesting on November 10 to see whether Americans voted for “change” or not. Both politicians were running to make changes in…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | November 2nd, 2016
…The four major elements in this electionThe last book of the New Testament of the Bible, called the Book of Revelation, describes the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the messengers bringing a vision of the Last Judgment. The white horse brings conquest and pestilence, the red horse brings war, the…