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by Jack Dura | Culture | January 28th, 2015
…Gadfly column 2.3 percent of all stories were hard news59.16 percent of all stories were arts and entertainment-related (visual art, theater, food and drink, film, music, etc.) Film has been the most covered subject in the High Plains Reader, comprising 14.93 percent of stories. This may be due in part…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | June 20th, 2018
…Ireland Has Sent Pope Francis and The Vatican A Dear John Letter: “It’s Over!”The Irish people and the Vatican have been developing a huge cultural grand canyon for decades over the issues of gender identities, contraceptives, abortion, same sex marriage, and the roles of women in the church. In an…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | April 25th, 2018
…Maybe We Should Quote “The Raven” MoreThe January National Geographic magazine has a remarkable article about the 10,000 species of birds that live around and above us, and it prompted me to recall some of the species I have observed in my lifetime. As a five-year-old farm boy and the…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | April 11th, 2018
…Don’t We Give A Damn About Education Anymore?The Donald has been going on a tweet-firing rampage lately, evidently changing his status from king to emperor. Some kings must have approval from their courts and courtiers, but emperors have absolute rule over everybody. So here we have our Emperor-Great Leader, one…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | April 4th, 2018
…The NRA Gun Lobby And Republicans Pick Guns Over KidsAfter the record-setting “March For Our Lives” protest on March 24, the $5 million-a-year National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre stayed in his bunker and remained tight-lipped, but his trolls dropped their AR-15s, climbed out of their militia foxholes, and put…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | March 14th, 2018
…Bones exploding, organs disintegratingLet’s get real for a few minutes. Several trauma surgeons, most with Iraq and Afghanistan war experiences, collaborated for a New York Times article, “Wounds from Military-Style Rifles? ‘A Ghastly Thing To See’.”Rifles with muzzle velocities over 3,000 feet per second explode bones and disintegrate organs. They…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | October 6th, 2025
…gadfly@gmail.comWill we be banging or whimpering at the end of the American empire?T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Hollow Men” accurately portrays the end of most empires in his first lines: “We are the hollow men/ We are the stuffed men/ Leaning together/ Headpiece filled with straw/ Alas! Our dried voices, when…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | September 16th, 2025
…gadfly@gmail.comWhat are the four freedoms of Donald John Trump? Nearly a century ago, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said every citizen in the United States of America should have four freedoms: Freedom from want and fear, freedom of speech and freedom of worship. In 2025, President Donald John Trump has demonstrated…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | September 8th, 2025
…gadfly@gmail.comIf a child is drowning in a ditch, will you get your shoes muddy? “Big Moma” Leah Drumwright was a Black slave in the 19th century who had one of her numerous babies and was nursing an infant. At the same time, her white owner had a baby. Leah was…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | August 25th, 2025
…gadfly@gmail.comTrump: the new man for all seasonsFive hundred years ago, Lord Chancellor Sir Thomas More of England refused to write a letter to Pope Clement VII of the Roman Catholic Church asking that he annul the marriage of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon because she had failed to give…