Deadly News
Guy Smith | August 20, 2008
May you have the good fortune to die on a slow news day.
Orwell on Obama
Guy Smith | August 19, 2008
“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.”
– George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language”, 1946
Rough Love
Guy Smith | August 11, 2008
I posted a rough hack of a 2003 song I wrote when I first subjected myself to the irony of Internet dating … and all the psychotic dementia that can induce.
Titled “Electronic Love” there is enough innuendo to make the lyrics amusing. For anyone who has seen how the net can both enhance and cripple [...]
Un U.N.
Guy Smith | August 10, 2008
Anyone retaining respect for the United Nations will jettison their misguided sentiments next year.
But there is an option.
Come spring when even atheists catch a glimmer of God in the annual renewal of life, the U.N. will host an anti-racism conference. Like most Orwellian institutions, the name given saints disguises the monster beneath.
The head of [...]
Wayward Edwards
Guy Smith | August 8, 2008
John Edwards claims he is not the father of a child whelped by the woman with which he had an affair. For months Edwards publicly denied his tryst and now he denies he spawned the scion out of wedlock.
Where was Bill Clinton nine months before the blessed event?
While confessing to ABS News Edwards also [...]