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by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | August 5th, 2023
…gadfly@gmail.comIn What State or Country Do You Want to Live – and in What Century?In 16th Century Cambridge, England, Thomas Hobson owned a livery stable where he had 40 horses for rent. When customers saw 40 horses, they might assume they had a choice. No way. If the customer refused…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | July 30th, 2023
…gadfly@gmail.comCan You Imagine a Blabbering Nutcase and a “No Kidding—No Joke” Guy in 2024?There is little doubt that the 2024 presidential election in the Divided States of America is probably the most important election in this country and the world for decades— possibly centuries, depending upon what happens in this…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | July 19th, 2023
…gadfly@gmail.com“We Are Swamped in the Wake of Yachts and Chopped Up by Propeller Blades”In the final episode of the TV series “Succession,” which is all about the desire for power, the power theme is based on this truism: “Human nature yearns for one morsel, and then one more, and then…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | July 17th, 2023
…gadfly@gmail.comThe Supreme Court Is the Only Political Party in a Time Machine in Reverse GearIn his Book 1 of Politics more than 2,300 years ago,Greek philosopher Aristotle claimed – correctly – that man is political by nature. And to achieve “common good,” citizens had to participate in a political community…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | July 1st, 2023
…gadfly@gmail.comMaybe Someday Orcas Will Be Able to Tell Us Why They Attacked Our BoatsIn the first two weeks of June, each of the continents of America and Europe had maritime disasters in deep seas, one at 12,500 feet in the Atlantic Ocean and the other at 17,000 feet in the…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | June 24th, 2023
…gadfly@gmail.comIn the DSA of Traumatized Homo Sapiens an Illiterate Sociopath was PresidentAccording to experts, the Bible contains several versions of an old proverb (Luke and Matthew) that resembles an old English proverb written by John Ray in 1678 that states: “A man be better half blind than have both eyes…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | June 18th, 2023
…gadfly@gmail.comModern Rastafarianism, Ancient Ultra-Orthodox Jewry, and Today’s ProtopiaAccording to Donald Trump’s current “Big Lie,” we once lived in Utopia. He is the man with policies that will return our current life in Dystopia back to Utopia—where we were great. The Donald pledges to “Make America Great Again,” better known on…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | June 12th, 2023
…gadfly@gmail.comWhy Is the Divided States of America the Most Unequal Society in the World?I have hundreds of favorite poems that mean much more to me than long-winded prose. My absolute favorite is T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” It contains the most depressing line about the human…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | June 4th, 2023
…gadfly@gmail.comCan Someone Tell Me Why Sneakers Sell for $1.5 to $2.2 Million a Pair? It has to be something other than quality. I shop for used books in thrift stores because I have discovered thick books given as gifts usually have not been read. Last week I picked up a…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | May 27th, 2023
…gadfly@gmail.comQuestion for 2024: Will a Billion Guns and a Quadrillion Bullets Make DSA Safer?Ever since Lucy fell out of an African tree 3.2 million years ago, animals have been designing new ways to kill each other. For the last 300,000 of those years, Homo sapiens have been inventing more efficient…