Heaven’s DMV
Guy Smith | September 30, 2007
God is not love. God is an elaborate bureaucracy that makes the Department of Motor Vehicles look simple kind by comparison.
Acus Fracas
Guy Smith | September 28, 2007
I received an intriguing letter from a San Francisco reader who is being dragged to the once mythical intersection of Squalor and Bedlam.
Daniel (I have altered his name to protect him from junkies, politicians, and other undesirables) contacted me after having read my rhetoric concerning San Francisco’s encouragement of doping outside of city hall. [...]
Hillary’s Health care Hazard
Guy Smith | September 27, 2007
Hillary Clinton’s new motto must be “If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.”In the early days of her husbands rein, Hillary was given the unprecedented role of Presidential Copilot, and assigned the task of concocting a “fix” American health care. Given the long success streak our health care system had in [...]
Monking Business
Guy Smith | September 23, 2007
It takes a gutsy man to wear saffron robes in public. So it should be no surprise that 1,000 such fellows would have sufficient collective testicular mass to confront heavy-handed thugs.
That’s the state of the state of Burma, which has endured a military monarchy for 45 years. Not that the people of Burma [...]
Unrigging Elections
Guy Smith | September 14, 2007
The good people of California should do what is right, what is fair, and what is not in their self-interest.
In the rich and colorful history of American election rigging, few schemes achieve a status more notorious than the winner-take-all system for hijacking electoral college votes. You would have to travel to my native South [...]