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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 | January 5th, 2026
…on Planet Earth. What an unmitigated disaster this is going to be. Think of privacy, toilets, bathrooms, showers, heat, air conditioning, food, health care, courts, lawyers — and a thousand other details. Miller should also explain why ICE police have arrested 170 American citizens, 20 of them children.fargo gadfly
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…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | December 2nd, 2025
…gadfly@gmail.comWhy not put all of our gold at Fort Knox to common good?With all of the gold and marble Donald Trump has been splattering and gluing around the White House and Oval Office, why don’t we put all of that gold in Fort Knox, Kentucky at work on Capitol Hill…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | November 24th, 2025
…gadfly@gmail.comDemocrats have MAGA, MAHA, MAWF, and Trumplicans to fight My favorite analyst of things religious and political is Finton O’Toole who uses plain English, curses, temper, and knowledge to make a point. He has just published the autopsy of the death of the Democratic Party in the 2024 presidential election…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | November 18th, 2025
…gadfly@gmail.comWill the Vatican ever love LBGTQUIA+ with open hearts and minds? Christians have been hot and bothered by sex for 2,000 years and Catholic popes, cardinals, bishops, priests and nuns have been flummoxing Catholics on their knees in pews or in confessionals forevermore. Will the Vatican ever evolve to enroll…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | November 12th, 2025
…gadfly@gmail.comWho will write “The Rise and Fall of the Third Trumpidiotocracy?” Chicago-born William L. Shirer was 30 when he covered a major Nazi Party Rally in Nuremberg, Germany in 1934 for theNew York Herald Tribune. By 1938, he had become one of Edward R. Murrow’s “Murrow’s Boys” of CBS Radio…