“You knew that he was a kid who was always sticking up for the underdog. Boy, if he felt something was wrong, forget it. He’d fight anybody tooth and nail, often at his expense. That’s worth a lot.” — Pete Jenny on RFK, Jr. White Washing: According to one Merriam-Webster definition, to whitewash is to “gloss …
by Paul Haeder / February 16th, 2021 A December 2017 statement from the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights notes that, while the US manages to spend “more [money] on national defence than China, Saudi Arabia, Russia, United Kingdom, India, France, and Japan combined”, US infant mortality rates were, as of 2013, “the …
The Music “Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.” ― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems Here’s a situational recipe for pure enjoyment while imbibing on beer, food and storytelling through a not-so imaginary alpine glen feast of Sean Ullman’s 2020 book, Seward …
If I were asked what I want to accomplish as a writer, I would say it’s to contribute to the literature of hope. — Barry Lopez, About This Life A passing. A death. Moving on. Back to earth. A new journey. He filled the air with lyrical words and ideas grafted to our role as writers …
“It is not for me to say whether we see best with the hand or the eye. I only know that the world I see with my fingers is alive, ruddy, and satisfying.” — Helen Keller, 1908, The World I Live In The legacy of a society is, well, how it treats its young, old, …
for Makenna . . . daughter, Celtic hounds’ tooth swimmer, goddess of fire by Paul Haeder / January 30th, 2021 split secondlike your birthlistening to mestill womb-huddledmaybe my boomingvoice, a father’s whelpingcall, a miracle of universallabor, winched you out split secondviral unleashedsagging immunesystem, his bodyravaged by chemothe light in hiseyes, flipped aroundbrain swellingmeningitisencephalitisyour uncle journeyedfrom …
The tables were turned — David Rovics interviewed me in a wide-ranging, tangentially themed hour a few days ago. Here is what one Dissident Voice article has to say about Portland, OR-based Rovics. He is not one to wait for his turn to talk. He listens intently and when I’m finished asks another question. After …
The number of gun sales in Oregon by Christmas Day, 2020, was a whopping 400,000. The year before, an anemic 300,000. It is the law of the gun. Guns in jets, guns in bombers, guns in schools, guns here on the streets, in Salem, at the Capital, guns in Grand Theft Auto V, guns in purses, …
I. he holds by-catch silent guy, put on “the spectrum” he sorts through whiting salmon sharks cookie cutters threshers, dog fish indiscriminate lashing of boat nets, trawling and seining vast ecosystems Pacific depths II. he knows 500 species by heart, Asperger’s the old label he pulls in gasping sharks or flat octopus even …
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!” –Upton Sinclair The College Degrees are Part of the Problem, not the Solution Moreover, this false consciousness of the holder of the university degree is to some extent legitimized by the “social expectation” of the family, …
