Author: the white trash poet

It was four years ago yesterday when President George W. Bush landed on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln, declaring that “major combat operations in Iraq have ended”, while the banner touting “Mission...

Somewhere in time, Winston Smith, and all the Winston Smiths of the nation, begins another day under the watchful eye of Big Brother. But, there is something different about this morning. The voice still echoes forth from the...

Today, I had the misfortune of being exposed to the mouthpiece of the GOP – FOX News. While the topic was rather tame and fairly bi-partisan (stocks and trading), the punditry on display played their hands fully, throwing...

As always, when the comparisons to our current governmental regime and the Nazi rulers of Germany are made, the end result of Nazi brutality – millions of dead in concentration camps – is thrown as the trump card to...

Last night, I stomached a few moments of Bush’s speech, coming on the heels of the brilliant words of Mr. Olbermann. As I listened to him speak, I was struck by how easily one paragraph of his text could be re-interpreted...