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by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | November 25th, 2023
…gadfly@gmail.comHow Many of Napoleon’s Hats Will Save Planet Earth for Homo Sapiens?Before I get into this week’s subject of why we need to double the number of college majors in English and Humanities if we are going to save Planet Earth for our grandchildren, I must admit I have a…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | November 18th, 2023
…gadfly@gmail.comThe Purpose of a College Education: Do We Work to Live or Live to Work?Because of the increasing costs of college, the staggering $1.7 trillion of student debt owed by 45 million American students and parents ages 18 to 95, and the failure of states to support with taxes vocational,…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | November 11th, 2023
…gadfly@gmail.com“Trump Cabinet Member: ‘If a Document Has a Staple in It, Don’t Give It to Trump.’”Among the most fascinating papers in the world would be the transcripts of Donald Trump from the elite universities he attended. What courses did he take? What were his major studies? His speech is free…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | November 4th, 2023
…gadfly@gmail.comWell, Whaddaya Know! Barbarians Have the Same Life Expectancy!A barbarian is defined as one belonging to a people or tribe considered to be a primitive civilization filled with fierce, brutal, and cruel persons who are uncultured and insensitive. If there has been a century in the history of Homo sapiens…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | October 28th, 2023
…gadfly@gmail.comEverybody Needs to Understand Critical Economic and Racial FactsOnce in a great while one runs across an innocent-looking article that is like a combined X-ray, sonogram, and MRI examining your country. Daniel Immerwahr in the October 23 New Yorker in “The Pitchfork of History: Beyond the myth of rural America”…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | October 21st, 2023
…gadfly@gmail.comHow many centuries have religions been fighting each other in the Middle East?In the early foggy, frosty morning of December 25, 1914, before cannons roared and bullets whizzed, songs of Christmas were heard by German troops in the trenches on the Western Front. It was “all quiet on the front.”…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | October 17th, 2023
…gadfly@gmail.comRemember When “Mission Impossible” Instructions Self-Destructed in Five Seconds?Some Democrats, including a few of his closest advisors, are forgetting what got Joe Biden elected in 2020. He never had a personal political platform to run on except for the fact he had 44 years of experience getting elected senator and…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | October 7th, 2023
…gadfly@gmail.comWere the Mushrooms You Ate With Your Steak Asexual or Bisexual?British plant scientists made a discovery while investigating why an extremely rare green shrub formally called Ruizia mauririana was not doing well in an old Victoria formal garden called Temperate House, in London’s Kew Gardens.Examples of this specimen are extremely…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | September 29th, 2023
…gadfly@gmail.comIs Cruelty a Part of Nature—or Is It Just Part of Human Nature?Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman has been my economics guru for many years for his pithy columns in The New York Times. In his September 14 column he used a word that I believe he has never used…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | September 23rd, 2023
…gadfly@gmail.comEighty Million Eligible Voters Did Not Vote in the DSA in 2020. Why Not?In the first week of February, 2023, Deborah Daub, 59, shot and killed her husband James Daub, 62, Morgan Daub, their daughter, then killed her mother Deborah, and then killed herself. Pennsylvania township police said the murders…