Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.
Rise like lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number.
Shake your chains to earth, like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you--
Ye are many, they are few.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley
My friend Bernie says he can't believe the American people haven't figured out what it's all about. "The whole damn…
"We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men"~~George Orwell
Recently, Nova M Radio's Mike Malloy suggested the lethargy that appears to have descended on the American people is more "rage fatigue" than a lack of knowledge or…
"You is feeling like you was lost in the bush, boy? You says: It is a puling sample jungle of woods.
You most shouts out: Bethicket me for a stump of beech if I have the poultriest notions what the farest
he all means."~~James Joyce, Finnegans Wake (1939)
My friend Bernie says ever since the…
Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits - a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a…
