Paul Haeder, Author

writing, interviews, editing, blogging

It took a Jew, really, to write Nickel and Dimed? Ain’t seeing any Jew doing house cleaning or schlepping laundry and supplies for these vacation rentals, but am sure Jews own a shitload of them! Paulo Kirk Apr 27, 2026 Barbara Ehrenreich was a middle-class journalist with a PhD who went “undercover” to investigate low-wage …

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Iran is not being attacked because it is a threat to the United States; it’s being attacked precisely because it isn’t one. Paulo Kirk Mar 03, 2026 Girls’ bloody backpacks, man. VERSUS: Yesterday, I mentioned almost getting into a fist fight at the cardio rehab at the hospital where I have been working out for …

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four poems . . . . “We’re all just walking each other home.” Paulo Kirk Dec 25, 2025 Benedictions and revelatory and celebratory poems. Ending today, Yule Tidings. +—+ I sent my daughter a Lakota beaded leather bag, to shoulder, small enough for poems, sage, small rocks and bones and, well, memories: Then, unfortunately, my …

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reading a new book by Will Potter, author of Green is the New Red (’11), and then newsfeeds just keep dinging me on my computer as I read his Little Red Barns: Hiding the Truth from Farm to Fable I’ll be interviewing Will Tuesday, for my radio show, Finding Fringe: Voices from the Edge, and …

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“So, they haven’t broken — they have not broke me. I am not broken.” While he was in prison, he was treated — I mean, it was hell on Earth all 49 years. And he was revered and respected by the prisoners, but it was hell on Earth. He never had proper medical care. He …

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Scott Ritter’s now talking about secondary education, literature, and fuck, what a White Scum Bucket Attitude he HAS . . . Give me Paul Robeson and Joe Hill & Elizabeth Gurely Flynn !! This will have to be a quickie, but expect a ton more: My Comment to Jar Head Scott Ritter’s latest freaky Substack: …

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tribute to the aging, the disenfranchised, the poor (economically) community, the developmental disabled, & the ones with a shit load of love with no strings attached . . . Innocent victim of Friday coming-home traffic. At the tree lighting in Waldport. I was there with a client, who enjoys this seasons and all holiday seasons. …

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