Cowboy Confessional

Guy Smith – writer, songwriter, political provocateur

Kennedy’s Choice

Guy Smith | May 20, 2008

News breaks today that the champion of British/Canadian style socialized medicine has a malignant brain tumor.
Teddy Kennedy was diagnosed via biopsy very quickly, which is a much different story than we get from places where socialized medicine is mandated.  This is because Kennedy opted-out and paid for the services he wanted, got those service when [...]

Running Joke

Guy Smith | May 18, 2008

In San Francisco we have an annual athletic event that over time has gone horribly wrong.
The Bay to Breakers is a 12 kilometer run, jog, walk, crawl. Elite athletes start the race, because if they had to weave past the costumed mob that congregates each spring, they just wouldn’t bother showing up.
It is the [...]

Obama Bomb

Guy Smith | May 16, 2008

Cattle are dumb. I know this first hand having corralled more than a few in my youth. Bovine spook easily, and with little effort you can get a cow to run directly into the slaughterhouse.
Barack Obama may be part black, part white, and part cow.
While in Israel this week, President Bush was pitching [...]

Relatively Unfairness

Guy Smith | May 12, 2008

I was browsing a mailer from the Cato Institute with an article by one of the most astute, and funniest, political commentators, P.J. O’Rourke.
In discussing the failings of politicians to eliminate — or even understand — “unfairness” P.J. notes that he has a 10 year old living at home who often says that something is [...]

Trust-less Terrorists

Guy Smith | May 10, 2008

Never trust a terrorist … especially if you are one.
Trust between violent extremist equals that between criminals, and by criminals I mean elected Republicans and Democrats. Anyone willing to kill large numbers of innocent bystanders of their own race/religion/party will undoubtedly kill anyone, including their alleged allies.
A second installment in the war between terrorists [...]