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by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | May 16th, 2024
…gadfly@gmail.comIs It Possible to Move from a Tent on a Sidewalk to a Garage in the Sky? There have been wealthy people who added a car elevator to the mansion for their Bentleys so they could unload groceries close to the kitchen, but I have never seen a high-rise apartment…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | April 16th, 2024
…gadfly@gmail.comAccording to my great-grandfather many years ago, my French ancestors migrated from Normandy to Quebec to Manitoba to Wisconsin to Minnesota over the spread of more than two centuries, finally settling in or near Little Falls and then spreading to the Twin Cities. People left Europe for two major reasons:…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | March 21st, 2024
…gadfly@gmail.comThe Catacombs under Paris Contain the Bones of Millions of FeudalistsSixty-five feet below the Paris streets are about 170 miles of tunnels that go through stone quarries, galleries, and ossuaries that contain the bones of six million French who died between the 9th and 18th centuries. Along the tunnel walls…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | March 21st, 2024
…gadfly@gmail.comWhy Jerry Lee Lewis Sang: “There’s a whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on"For the last couple of months, the “Star Spangled Banner’’ was not the national anthem. It was Jerry Lee Lewis’s song about sex titled “Whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on.” At the same time there was a whole lot of…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | March 21st, 2024
…gadfly@gmail.comTwo Super Bowl Seats at a 60 Minute Game would Pay a Year’s College TuitionThe final seat price is in. The average seat price for the 2024 Super Bowl is $9,850, figuring in scalpers, grifters, and the like. The super rich paid as much as $66,000 for an executive skybox…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | February 15th, 2024
…gadfly@gmail.comPoliticians could learn a lot by watching dung beetles work for a livingThe 400,000 species of beetles is the largest order of insects discovered on Planet Earth, so far. Insect researchers believe that the orders of bees, wasps and ants may be larger, but no one has counted them, so…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | February 15th, 2024
…gadfly@gmail.comMAGA Throwaways: helmets, reason, masks, regulations, seatbelts, and booksThere was a time when troops in trenches and foxholes moved from killing each other to recognizing the enemy was also a human being. Christmas morning during World War II in Europe was one time in between firing artillery pieces and machine…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | January 18th, 2024
…gadfly@gmail.comThere are signs 2024 is going to be a disastrous yearMy favorite philosopher William Shakespeare was said to recognize 20,000 flowers and often used their qualities to complete a scene, to add meaning to plot and dialogue, and to put another hat or cloak on a character. He understood that…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | December 27th, 2023
…gadfly@gmail.com Tevye: “Oh, Lord, You Made Many, Many Poor People. If I Were a Rich Man……… Whenever Corky and I get a chance to watch “Fiddler on the Roof” we make some popcorn. The short stories about Jewish life titled Tevye the Dairyman and His Daughters were written in Yiddish…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | December 9th, 2023
…gadfly@gmail.comThese Colors Can Produce Beautiful Flags or Ugly BruisesAs a football player playing guard in the middle of the line, I estimated at the end of eight years of high school and college that I had been hit approximately 14,000 times in 80 games alone, not counting scrimmages and practices.…