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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…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | September 22nd, 2023
…gadfly@gmail.comIf Homo Sapiens Do Nothing About Climate-Change, We Will Be Dead Saps SoonAnimals started to develop from plants 1.8 billion years ago, so that’s when our brains began to develop. The world’s politicians are currently experiencing climate change on every continent but haven’t come up with answers to control it…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | September 16th, 2023
…gadfly@gmail.comArt: José Guadalupe Posada, CC0, via Wikimedia CommonsCan Our Conjoined Democracy Be Separated and Survive?A two-headed western rat snake is back in a pit at a Waco, Texas zoo after recovering from an injury that most likely was caused by an argument between its two brains. The unusual snake with…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | September 2nd, 2023
…gadfly@gmail.comAt What Evolutionary Level Do Animals Make War on Each Other?Many animals are territorial but only a few will kill brothers and sisters to maintain a predator area. Foxes are known to kill chickens when they are looking for one to eat. Wolves kill a lot of sheep and eat…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | August 19th, 2023
…gadfly@gmail.comLinus: ‘I Love Mankind, It’s People I Can’t Stand’On August 8, two brothers, 8 and 9, were shot to death as they played with kittens in their backyard in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, and a 19-year-old boy who lived with the family, the real target in this mass shooting, was also shot…