Author: the white trash poet

Also available at The American Nightmare. Today is the sixtieth birthday of our feckless leader, George W. Bush. In “celebration” of the event, I present the following as my gift to him… to George, on your...

independence…..    On this holiday weekend, I have been dwelling on our nation and the direction it is traveling, and the roads it has already taken. I found myself thinking about the peoples who have been...

cross posted at the white trash poet two thousand and five two thousand and five, in which a wanna be king with delusions, delusions of sainthood, rides his horse of the “pious” to another turn at the white house,...

Over the next few weeks, the “holiday” season gets into full swing – with office parties, family gatherings and the inevitable, big new year’s eve bash. A quick look around at these gatherings and one...

More often than not, we rarely think about the teachers who have left their mark on our way of thinking – not only for the better, though usually so. Sure, I often look back at that trigonometry teacher from high school...