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by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | May 5th, 2025
…gadfly@gmail.comWhat age has been determined to be the worst in world history?Historians have estimated about one third of the population of Europe died of the bubonic plague, also known as the black plague, from the fifth century through the 15th century of the Middle Ages. The early years of this…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | April 27th, 2025
…gadfly@gmail.comThere is a big difference between ears and legsOur English language adds words to dictionaries every year because there are more than 6,000 languages on earth and we do communicate with friends and enemies. We now have more than 600,000 words in the most complete dictionary, the Oxford English Dictionary.…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | March 31st, 2025
…gadfly@gmail.comA column on How Trumusklicans are trying to change historyIt took William L. Shirer a couple decades to write and then publish “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany,” but it took a very short time to become the 1,599-page explosion that “shook the…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | March 29th, 2025
…gadfly@gmail.comA description of “Big Boss” King Donald and his Trumplican mobOur new Health and Human Services Dictator Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who has sold and been addicted to heroin and other drugs and suffers from worms eating his brain, has a solution for people who have been addicted because of…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | February 28th, 2025
…gadfly@gmail.comLennon: “Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can!”On January 8, 2025, Timothy W. Rybeck of “The Atlantic” magazine published “How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days” with the opening line: “He used the constitution to shatter the constitution.” What immediately leaped into my mind? King Donald Trump. He is…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | February 10th, 2025
…gadfly@gmail.comHomo Sapiens are now old enough to know betterAccording to fossil experts — so far, Homo sapiens have been around for about 300,000 years, evolving slowly from a few other Homos, until most of the Neanderthals met our Maker — if there is One. Homo sapiens have been left “alone”…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | January 27th, 2025
…gadfly@gmail.comHow billionaires with brain rot are creating bedlam in the USAOn January 21, 2010, the Republican-dominated United States Supreme Court approved a death sentence for American democracy of 250 to 300 years — and we have already served 244 years. The Citizens United decision removed any limits placed on current…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | January 17th, 2025
…gadfly@gmail.comWill the Divided States of America Add or Subtract to the Future?In 1937, English writer Aldous Huxley published his novel of the future “Brave New World 632 A.F.” (after Henry Ford), a world restricted by a shortage of essential resources to two billion people. Now born and raised in human…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | January 6th, 2025
…gadfly@gmail.comMaybe we will have a transgender insurrection at the capitol on Jan 6About 3.18 million years ago an adult female chimpanzee eventually named Lucy (after that famous Lucy in the Beatles’ song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”) fell out of a tree in Ethiopia, stumbled, and walked away on…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | December 30th, 2024
…gadfly@gmail.comWould women be able to stop the clock—and possibly rewind it?Scientists who are members of The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists who constantly study the combined risks of nuclear annihilation, climate change, biological threats, and disruptive technologies, set their Doomsday Clock at 90 seconds to midnight in January of 2023. After…