Guy Smith | October 21, 2006
The most poorly key secret in American gun control debates is that those favoring gun control have given up denouncing the Second Amendment (the right to keep and bear arms) as a states right. Only Sarah Brady, the aging figurehead of that movement, seems to have missed the memo.
So let us look to constitutional [...]
Guy Smith | October 20, 2006
Baghdad is a microcosm of Iraq, the effects of a premature withdrawal, and the key argument against time-table evacuation planning.
The long stated goal of this administration was for Iraq to be a self-sustaining democracy. A key element to such a society is the ability to defend itself from threats internal and external. The [...]
Guy Smith | October 15, 2006
I just finished reading P.J. O’Rourke’s “Eat The Rich”, which I should have read eight years ago when it was first published (I’ve been busy). A wondrous tome rich in O’Rourke-isms and conceived through world travel and an estimated about two dozen cases of scotch (he must be on the wagon).
O’Rourke’s [...]
Guy Smith | October 11, 2006
Songs are short stories set to music. Aside from the rubbish once known as disco, most songs have a very compact story.
* The average novel starts at 80,000 words
* A novella is around 30,000
* Short fiction starts at 1,000
* Most three stanza, one chorus songs … 200
A songwriter must struggle with almost every word [...]
Guy Smith | October 7, 2006
I just watched the highest pile of political equestrian exhaust thus far this millennium, the Texas Governor’s debate.
With the exception of Kinky Friedman, who gave inarticulation a good name, the assembled candidates lofted answer so empty that they defied gravity. Strayhorn was feisty and non-specific in her answers, Perry was busy skirting issues, and [...]
