Guy Smith | August 29, 2009
I could get used to this real quick.
There is a holy place in the unholy town of Berkeley, California. Smelted in the 1960’s along with several thousand other coffee shops (the American variety, not the Amsterdam kind, though in the 60’s the differences were minor) was The Freight. Its proper name is The [...]
Guy Smith | August 26, 2009
The passing of Ted Kennedy has tormented me all this long day. It started with drinking whiskey for breakfast.
Teddy’s politics and positions have largely been an affront to those who lust for liberty. The media made great hay today of his support for 1960’s era civil rights legislation, though any decent human being [...]
Guy Smith | August 23, 2009
Having written songs and performed solo for way too long, it is odd being in a band. (We’ll call it a band. More like four guys who wanted to jam and needed a good reason to drink week nights). Individually we are all quite good. Collectively we are sloppy with occasional [...]
Guy Smith | August 21, 2009
Obama and company overlooked two important realities in their attempt to rectally insert health insurance intervention into America’s posterior.
Obama’s major political malpractice was attempting a third bum’s rush. Haste in flushing money through bowls of the financial system might have been necessary given alleged urgencies from the sub-prime mortgage implosion. Sensing opportunity, Obama [...]
Guy Smith | August 14, 2009
Hysteria can be very entertaining.
Take the current and rancorous debate concerning health care insurance (do note that proposals polluting Congress have noting to do with health care but everything to do with economics). We have in recent days seen episodes of fear induced hysteria that turned alleged adults into mindless, defensive, stuttering buffoons, barely [...]
