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by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | October 19th, 2016
…The good, the bad, and the really uglyThe headline might suggest this column is all about the 2016 presidential and Congressional election. Most of it is, but there are some good things happening in this country, although the election campaigns concentrate on emphasizing the bad and the really ugly. As…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | September 28th, 2016
…Our climate is going down the toilet—a solid gold oneIn late August the International Geological Congress meeting in Capetown, South Africa received a recommendation from a world-renown group of scientific experts that the world has entered a new geological epoch because of human impact on Planet Earth. The experts say…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | September 14th, 2016
…PotpourriEvery once in awhile over the years I have written a column, a potpourri of unconnected, incongruous comments based on items in a little folder I keep. I hope they are interesting—and that they make a point.1. About 25 states have accepted or are proposing to legalize the use of…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | September 7th, 2016
…Will we ever get our priorities straight?The Pilgrims of the Massachusetts Bay Colony were the first Americans to pledge support of wounded war veterans after members of their “militia” were killed and wounded during the massacre of native Pequots in 1636. Caring for our veterans after 400 years of war…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | August 31st, 2016
…It’s getting to be a real bizarre world out thereWe have The Donald, once a classic psychopathic Democratic ass who is now running for president of 325 million people as a crazy psychopathic Republican elephant. He likes his name in twenty-foot high gold letters on everything. We have former Minnesota…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | August 24th, 2016
…“He’s got a good head on his shoulders” may have an entirely new meaningThey have done it to mice, rats, and dogs. Humans could be next. About 220 years ago Queen Marie Antoinette of France, famous for her sarcastic “Let them eat cake!” lost her head to the guillotine when…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | August 17th, 2016
…When will Christians recognize the science of genetics?When some Fargo Catholics walked the seven-mile pilgrimage last week from the “holy door of mercy” on the Sts. Anne & Joachim Church to the “holy door of mercy” of St Mary’s Cathedral, I wonder if they thought of members of the LGBTQ…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | August 10th, 2016
…It’s time to dump the poisoned Olympics into Rio’s cesspoolFirst it was politics. Then it was money. After that, more propaganda. Now it’s the ugly combination of politics, propaganda, and money. In the ancient Olympic Games, athletic participation was so pure and honorable that a truce was called, so spectators…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | August 3rd, 2016
…The era of cutthroat hyper-capitalismWe have been down this rock-strewn pathway before. It happens about every three generations because humans have short attention spans, and those who forget history usually repeat it. Capitalism works for everybody only with the condition that we have social mobility—which can only be achieved through…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | July 27th, 2016
…Old and new normalsIn the old normal, until the 1980s, we had lynchings by the Klu Klux Klan and others marked by racial hatred and economic inequality. In the last 30 years we have added conceal and open-carry laws and an absolute tsunami of guns on the streets to the…