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by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | May 6th, 2016
…From havens to havensI take the New Yorker for the cartoons and the occasional informative article. I thought two cartoons in the latest issue explored the conditions in the world and the United States as well as several thousand words could. Through the portals of animal cages by the floor…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | April 27th, 2016
…To be, or not to beTwo very important issues were presented to the world on the 400th anniversary of the death of the world’s greatest playwright and poet, William Shakespeare. Pope Francis, in his “Amoris Laetitia” (The Joy of Love), struggled to answer some of the questions about sex and…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | April 20th, 2016
…Well, Folks, It’s Time To Sharpen The PitchforksNow we really know the ultrarich in the world are very serious about keeping their money. The Panama Papers prove it. The British Virgin Islands, a tax haven in the Caribbean, has a population of 30,659 in 2016, but, amazingly, it might have…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | April 13th, 2016
…None of us made it on our ownIn 1949 a poor, tall, gangly black sophomore kid in Oakland, California was cut from his junior varsity basketball team by the coach after just one tryout. After the cut, one of the coaches told him he should try for the varsity team…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | April 6th, 2016
…Voter fraud in Texas and WisconsinIn the last ten years over 20 million votes have been cast in Texas state elections. Only two cases of voter fraud in that span of time have been prosecuted to conviction.Because of a lawsuit in Wisconsin, a district judge and aides prepared a 90-page…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | March 31st, 2016
…Expensive “free speech” doesn’t mean anything Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the Earth Institute at Columbia University has surveyed 157 countries to find the “world’s happiest place” based on such facts as Gross Domestic Product per capita (GDP), social support, healthy life expectancy , freedom to make life choices,…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | March 10th, 2016
…Killing Cats And Dogs, Selling Human Heads, And A Little Cannibalism I got a severe case of the heebie-jeebies the other night during the Republican debate when Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz were in the middle of yelling at each other and exchanging insults and lies at warp…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | March 3rd, 2016
…The Supreme Court and GitmoEven before Justice Antonin Scalia’s body at that exclusive Texas ranch-resort had assumed room temperature, leaders of the American Taliban, the Republican Party, said it would be useless for President Barack Obama to nominate a replacement because Republicans would not allow an up-or-down vote on the…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | February 27th, 2016
…Shouldn’t Everyone Carry Blood-Red Poppies?Every time a soldier was shot and fell in the satiric movie “Oh What A Lovely War” the screen went red and a red poppy grew. The symbol of a red poppy for a death on the battlefield came out of the horrendous casualties in World…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | January 24th, 2016
…Union Doctor: “To Work In A Hospital Today Is To Be Constantly Occupied With Money” This quote came from an Oregon hospitalist, a doctor who supervises patients’ care in hospitals, when he and his fellow 35 hospitalists decided to form a union when they were offered bonus plans if they…