Guy Smith | October 31, 2006
Perhaps the most succinct statement on geopolitical economics came from a 9th grade student.
“Well, here’s what I’ve learned: socialism is fair but doesn’t really work, while capitalism isn’t fair but does work mostly.”
I wish politicians could be that plain spoken.
But simple is as simple does, and youth exists to allow simpletons. What the young person [...]
Guy Smith | October 29, 2006
I slapped on my hiking shoes and took a quick stroll around the Alameda bay side, a village of tolerable yuppies and assorted San Francisco refugees who managed to escape the debilitating effects of drug intake (not that they didn’t take a whole lot of drugs … they merely managed to dodge a cranial chemical [...]
Guy Smith | October 25, 2006
The San Francisco Chronicle (a publication otherwise not to be trusted) ran an interesting interview with a film maker who did a simple and ingenious thing: he interviewed people in Israeli prisons for attempted suicide bombings to discover what makes them tick (pun intended).
Several items are enlightening, including a claim by a Hamas cleric who [...]
Guy Smith | October 24, 2006
Several San Francisco area newspapers have reported on an irony of violence that is bizarre even by Bay Area standards.
Just up from Berkeley — known affectionately by locals as Bizerkley — is the town of Richmond, which is generally poor, ethnic, governmentally corrupt, and violent. There is a region within Richmond known as the [...]
Guy Smith | October 23, 2006
Gallup Poll has concluded that you are more likely to own a gun if you are rural, southern, conservative and male. Next week they will determine that breathing is part of a healthy life style.
