Cowboy Confessional

Guy Smith – writer, songwriter, political provocateur

Bad Bard

Guy Smith | April 28, 2010

While watching yet another production of Hamlet I discovered that the play is custom made for over acting.  It as if the Bard created a production for showcasing inept actors.  A great production of Hamlet is about as rare as an honest politician.

Religious Repose

Guy Smith | April 23, 2010

While hammering away on a book about San Francisco (wherein I attempt to describe this place to the rest of America and confirm their suspicions) I staggered upon a staggering data element.
Jim Jones was the owner, operator and overload of The People’s Temple and a socialist agricultural commune in Guyana called Jonestown, which was largely [...]

Backwards Bombing

Guy Smith | April 20, 2010

Would Obama backers bomb buildings to bust baggers?
This is a disturbing notion.  In reaction to the Tea Party movement (which we have already seen is composed of a peaceful, multi-racial, pan-sexual, multi-generational Americans) some players planned on crashing the Tea Party events.  Their tactic was to dress and act in ways similar to how they [...]

Clinton Clipping

Guy Smith | April 18, 2010

“A lot of the things that have been said, they create a climate in which people who are vulnerable to violence because they’re disoriented, like Timothy McVeigh was, are more likely to act … and I didn’t have sexual relations with that woman.”
It is a bit surreal to see Bill “The Zipper” Clinton in action [...]

Tea Total

Guy Smith | April 15, 2010

The young black gent in the wheelchair raised a fist and shouted “Amen.”  The middle aged Hispanic woman, homemade sign overhead, applauded and said “Get rid of them all!”  The lady with the butch-cut hair, and her girl friend waving a rainbow flag, said “We’ve had enough.”  The teenage girl, bouncing on her toes held [...]