Bats . . . Conversations in a time of Plague . . . What’s Love Got to do with it? Part One Cirque #25 [first appeared in current Cirque Journal] The lie lulls or dreams, like the illusion. The truth is the only power, cheerful, inexhaustible. If we were able to live only of, and for …
surfing the Israel-First- dominated Netflix for flicks will paint you into a echo chamber of Hell on Earth! Yep, that is not an antisemitic thing, the subtitle, or the rest of I write herin. You know, some of us have looked critically at the media: I’m a journalist who actually took real journalism classes, did …
Book review of Gary Brumback, Life’s Triangles and America’s Power Elites (2019) Paul Haeder: Americans are in their own tight spot now: keeping on the lights, fridge half full, Super Bowl projected on plasma TV, the latest model of Jeep in the driveway, work that eats at the soul and the body. To see a …
This Land is Their Land, and We Are the Illegal Aliensby Paul K. Haeder RE: April 7, 2006 Man oh man, that’s 17 year ago, and boy isn’t that a huge passage of time. Today, the 31st of March? “The fight for equality must be fought on many fronts — in urban slums, in the sweatshops …
“If Capitalism is a disease, then it’s one that eats your flesh — and then profits from selling your bones for fertilizer, and then invests that profit to reap the cane harvest, and then sells that harvest to tourists who pay to visit your headstone.”― Raj Patel, A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A …
Every war is a war against children. –Egalntyne Jebb, founder Save the Children a century ago. We can celebrate and ruminate on any day of any month, and April is one of those months that have milestones and remembrances vital to me, and important to tens of millions. I’ve written about National Poetry …
I’m back at the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport Oregon, part of the Oregon State University campus harboring marine mammal-fisheries-benthic-ocean researchers and students. The topic: How humans decimated whale populations through hundreds of years of industrial whaling, leaving some species and populations on the brink of extinction. But despite these impacts, many whale populations …
Robin Waples: University of Washington (NOAA Fisheries, retired) Topic: On the shoulders of giants: Under-appreciated studies in salmon biology with lasting influence. In 1675 Isaac Newton wrote, “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” This idea epitomizes the way that science progresses by incremental steps, punctuated occasionally by …
Note: I was not on Facebook, Telegram, Gmail, the dumb phone for 24 hours! Whew, less stress in one day equaling thirty days of stress with all that crap I check out since I am a writer, journalist, educator and non-consumer of mainstream or stupid stream media! +–+ The Covid Insnaity stopped face-to-face fun of …
for Lisa on her 53rd** you look into dreamsthose chambers of memory warpedbent images on broken mirrors these you say are an umbilicalto another layer of spiritmaybe matter in the quantum senseconsciousness that flies likea giant moth looking for stellar light now you follow roads backunderstanding origins, faded photographssongs long forgotten still emanatingfrom those souls, …
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