Guy Smith | May 6, 2008
Q: What do Cassandra and Al Gore have in common?
A: Nothing.
That poor tart of antiquity (Cassandra, not Al, though he may well be old enough to qualify) knew with certainty what the future held, and nobody believed her. Gore on the other hand has prophesied on his and excited a throbbing mixed mass [...]
Guy Smith | May 5, 2008
“I support the troops!” was the obviously insane declaration of the old hippie I was arguing with. His gray ponytail flapping in the Berkeley breeze was a flag of suspicion. But being a cagey animal, I first asked exactly how he was supporting the troops.
“I’m trying to bring them home.”
I laughed, and [...]
Guy Smith | May 2, 2008
We often accuse government workers of being lazy. I have found an exception — a man of profound focus and dedication to the … er … task at hand.
The city of Kinokawa, Japan recently demoted an employee who, in a steady nine-month span managed to rack-up an astounding 780,000 on-the-job page views of [...]
