Cowboy Confessional

Guy Smith – writer, songwriter, political provocateur

Steinem’s Stalag

Guy Smith | March 3, 2008

A science fiction writer I knew ages ago once said something incredibly insightful. Her truism remains infallible whenever I apply it to the real world, or in the case of Gloria Steinem, a surreal world.
Leigh Richmond was a feminist of the first order, and one whom Steinem would have coward before. In the [...]

Free Musings

Guy Smith | March 2, 2008

Freedom is its own worst enemy.
Freedom explicitly entails the risk of self-sufficiency, which in-turn entails the risk of failure. Thus, to be truly free, one must live daily with the possibly of failing, sometimes catastrophically.
Therein lies the rub. People naturally fear failure, from small social interactions to life-ending calamity. Some people fear [...]