Intelligence Continuum
Guy Smith | July 10, 2009
Only the extremes of human intelligence need watching: those people too stupid to allow out of the house, and those too smart to let hold office.
Burma Shame
Guy Smith | July 8, 2009
The world has a great number of brave people. Precious few of them have editorial positions in the American media.
Still available within our individual memories is the uprising in Burma, one of too many corrupt junta hells that pockmark the planet. Though rumbles of resistance there were reported in the foreign journals, the [...]
Horse Play
Guy Smith | July 6, 2009
Drilling down through my list of songs to record or fix, I encountered Stolen Horses, the only outright Western I’ve ever written. Two years have lapsed between the original recording and this fix, which was actually a blessing. In those two years the recording studio software has been radically updated as has been my engineering [...]
Irradiated Iran
Guy Smith | July 5, 2009
When multiple pieces on a chessboard move simultaneously, the game will soon end unpleasantly.
This is not a reference to old men in the park engaging in fisticuffs over misplaces pawns. This is about Iran, Israel and an intervention that would change the scope of geopolitics forever.
In the last twelve hours, three separate news reports [...]
Isolation Insanity
Guy Smith | July 3, 2009
A dentist – who in the future will surely occupy a lower ring of hell – prescribed for me temporary medications that require avoiding alcohol for two weeks. Three weeks back a bone doctor slapped a leg cast around my fractured fib and thus I’m forced to stay in at night. And the Devil [...]