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by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | August 13th, 2025
…gadfly@gmail.comReagan laughed and quipped — but it has come true under our CEOPresident Reagan thought he was joking when he spoke to a 1980s political rally: “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.’” Many people in this cruel…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | July 21st, 2025
…gadfly@gmail.comThere might be room for Trump on Mount Rushmore after allDuring King Donald’s first term he told Kristi Noem, then a congresswoman and now his secretary of homeland security, his dream was to be on Mount Rushmore some day. On January 28, 2025, Florida Congresswoman Anna Pauline Luna (is that…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | July 7th, 2025
…gadfly@gmail.comWhy doesn’t the world require politicians to leave office at 60?Most of the leaders of countries, whether gods, fascists, democrats or socialists, are not doing very well these days. David Van Reybrouck, a Netherlands philosopher writes: “This is an unprecedented moment. The previous global disorder — Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Mao…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | July 1st, 2025
…gadfly@gmail.comA syndrome is defined as a group of signs and symptoms that collectively indicate or characterize a disease, psychological disorder, or other abnormal condition and any complex of symptoms of an undesirable condition or quality. So far, our medical experts have been treating about 7,000 rare diseases and thousands of…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | June 24th, 2025
…gadfly@gmail.comWe need Paul Revere on a Harley: “ants and autocrats are coming!”The Asian needle ant has been nesting in the American South since at least 1932. It probably hitched a ride on a freighter from a tropical Asian country delivering some exotic lumber used in furniture. This ant loves warm…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | June 19th, 2025
…gadfly@gmail.comWhy did Trump run for the White House? That’s where the money is!Remember the story about the robber who, when asked why he robbed banks, responded: “That’s where the money is!?” Well, now we have the story of the 45th president of the United States who, when running for another term…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | June 9th, 2025
…gadfly@gmail.comThe Fiddler on the roof was taking a big chance after two thousand years of hate Cal Thomas, who seems to hate a lot in a journalistic and broadcasting career where he expresses his conservative views, wrote in a column that “you have to be taught to hate.” He has…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | June 9th, 2025
…gadfly@gmail.comOur brave new world is now composed of Oceania, Eurasia, and EastasiaSomebody in the Trump administration has read and liked the results in George Orwell’s “1984.” I suspect one is Stephen Miller, the Trump “policy advisor” who has a black cloud over his head and is always at the ultra-right…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | May 28th, 2025
…gadfly@gmail.comFor sale: White House in D.C. housing dung beetles and giant leechesI suspect someone close to Donald Trump has read “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich,”because the Trump administration is following the guidelines developed by the Hitler administration from about 1932 through the spring of 1945. The developers…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | May 28th, 2025
…gadfly@gmail.comThree major religions — a trifecta of good and bad trouble for Earth “Out of guilt or amnesia, we tend to treat wars, in retrospect, as natural disasters, terrible but somehow inevitable beyond anyone’s control,” is the opening sentence in Adam Gopnik’s New Yorker article “A Time To Kill.” At…