Cowboy Confessional

Guy Smith – writer, songwriter, political provocateur

Modern Mythology

| July 30, 2011

TweetOne radio talk show host recently asked me to name the top five myths about gun control. My response was “Why discuss only 0.0001% of the lies?” Statistical snideness aside, the question provoked unnecessary thinking inside my convoluted cranium. It would be easy to rattle off several fabrications about firearms, numerous misinformation points involving numbers, [...]

Hoary Halves

| July 28, 2011

TweetWe spend the first half of our lives gathering experiences that we repeat endlessly in the second half.

Independent Streak

| July 22, 2011

TweetHomeless people have power. I speak not of various vagrants littering San Francisco street corners, but the politically homeless – voters to whom party is now meaningless. Try to pry from a leader of the Republican or Democrat parties an opinion about independent voters, and they will become more nervous than an AA member in [...]

New Song for Perfect Love

| July 17, 2011

TweetIf the Gawds of technology are working, this post should appear about the say time as I stand on the stern of a boat, facing a glorious woman and stuttering through the simple phrase “I do.” I post this in advance not to brag, but as an opportunity to let everyone not attending to hear [...]

International Incivility

| July 9, 2011

TweetCan China take away your civil rights? Such rhetorical inquiries sound absurd on the surface, but a new constitutional collision course is careening our way, one that pits the perverse perceptions of dictatorships, oligarchies and monarchies against you. You just knew Hillary Clinton would be at that nexus. International treaties have the ability to run [...]