Cowboy Confessional

Guy Smith – writer, songwriter, political provocateur

Obambast

Guy Smith | July 15, 2008

Barack Obama is orating on the obvious … again.
He is on television as I type, saying what George Bush has been saying all along in regards to Iraq.  His position is that the time to leave Iraq is when Iraq is secure and capable of self-defense.  He molds this as a unique and bold initiative [...]

Rank Language

Guy Smith | July 13, 2008

Language can be very instructive based on the commonality of meaning between certain words. Take the word ‘rank’. In one sense it represents the hierarchy of status for humans. It also means smelly or odoriferous. We routinely observe that people of higher social rank become more aromatically rank, confirming the shared [...]

Plummeting Pelosi

Guy Smith | July 12, 2008

Nancy Pelosi has defied the laws of physics, causing a body to accelerate downward faster than gravity normally allows.
Less than two years ago, Pelosi lectured the President on who supposedly had power. With a newly elected Democrat majority and her sagging butt cheeks in the Speaker’s chair, she proclaimed “There is a new Congress [...]

Tribune Tyrant

Guy Smith | July 5, 2008

It never troubles me to call out a liar. When they work in the media it is a downright pleasure.
This tiny tale relates the troubled souls of the Oakland Tribune, two of their writers and its Gollum editor Martin Reynolds. Martin’s misdeeds are a case study in why old media in general and [...]