Cowboy Confessional

Guy Smith – writer, songwriter, political provocateur

Libertad

Guy Smith | May 30, 2007

Hugo Chavez may soon join Adolph Hitler metaphysically and historically.
Dictators always let their ambition race ahead of common sense.  About the only exception is Castro who is regretably quite a chess master, and the Kim family of North Korea who accelerated public ignorance as a tool of domination. 
These notable exceptions aside, most dictators try to [...]

Fired Mutations

Guy Smith | May 29, 2007

Firing people is a Good Thing.  It is the institutional incarnation of DNA replication and repair.  Mutant cells are killed off in order to keep the entire organism healthy.
Two such defective cells appear to have been pruned from their hosts, and for the betterment of the body.  Despite public statements to the contrary, it appears [...]

Irrelvancy

Guy Smith | May 21, 2007

A political punching match erupted over the weekend, initiated by an interview of Former President Jimmy Carter in which he insulted the current president.  The Bush administration retorted, claiming that Carter was becoming “increasingly irrelevant.”
I have to take the Bushies to task for this unfounded and indefensible statement.  It presupposes that Carter was at all relevant [...]

Signs of Love

Guy Smith | May 18, 2007

There are three sure signs of love. The fire in the heart, the fire in the groin, and cross-fire when the other lover is discovered.

72 Virgin Project

Guy Smith | May 14, 2007

My local coffee shop has a gaggle of guys collectively know as the Testosterone Gang, of which I’m a founding member.  Morning java and jibes occasionally devolve into serious, intellectual discussions with deep and cosmically reverberating impact.
Today was not one of those days.
Indeed the daybreak discussion of Islamic terrorism rapidly devolved into an investigation of [...]