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​HPR under the microscope

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…

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​Abortion and Gender

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…

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Some things are for the birds

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…

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​Are We Losing Einsteins and Carvers?

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…

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​Enough To Make You Puke

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…

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​What military-style rifles do to human bodies

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…

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The Rise and Fall of the Second Trump

by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | March 31st, 2025

…gadfly@gmail.comA column on How Trumusklicans are trying to change historyIt took William L. Shirer a couple decades to write and then publish “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany,” but it took a very short time to become the 1,599-page explosion that “shook the…

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​Moronic, idiotic, imbecilic and out-to-lunch

by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | March 29th, 2025

…gadfly@gmail.comA description of “Big Boss” King Donald and his Trumplican mobOur new Health and Human Services Dictator Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who has sold and been addicted to heroin and other drugs and suffers from worms eating his brain, has a solution for people who have been addicted because of…

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Democracy Does Die in Darkness

by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | February 28th, 2025

…gadfly@gmail.comLennon: “Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can!”On January 8, 2025, Timothy W. Rybeck of “The Atlantic” magazine published “How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days” with the opening line: “He used the constitution to shatter the constitution.” What immediately leaped into my mind? King Donald Trump. He is…

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​Have Homo Sapiens Evolved to Humanus Stupidiens?

by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | February 10th, 2025

…gadfly@gmail.comHomo Sapiens are now old enough to know betterAccording to fossil experts — so far, Homo sapiens have been around for about 300,000 years, evolving slowly from a few other Homos, until most of the Neanderthals met our Maker — if there is One. Homo sapiens have been left “alone”…

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