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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 | December 29th, 2025
…airplanes going to distant poor countries. And we may, as in Hitler Youth days, have young “educated” white boys tossing Black and Brown babies in the air so their buddies can shoot them as filmed by the Gestapo and Waffen SS for the records of the Thousand-Year Reich.fargo gadfly
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | December 29th, 2025
…gadfly@gmail.comWill the human species destroy ourselves with bigotry and heat?The most inspiring of our leaders in the last century was Prime Minister Winston Churchill of England at the beginning of World War II when he declared: “Never give in — Never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | December 9th, 2025
…gadfly@gmail.comWill we move up from Homo sapiens to Human empathians? The big question is, will the world’s billionaires who are now Homo sapiens gain enough human empathy to save the world from themselves — and heat? The world currently has more than 3,000 billionaires and many millions of multi-millionaires who…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | December 2nd, 2025
…gadfly@gmail.comWill the Divided States of America end up selling bananas? Sixty-nine years ago, I was in charge of an advance party of the 6th Marines Regiment assigned for training in the Caribbean at Vieques Island, Puerto Rico and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, with stops in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Our…