Cowboy Confessional

Guy Smith – writer, songwriter, political provocateur

Inner Ugliness

| February 28, 2012

TweetAre you an innie or an outie? I am unconcerned with your navel configuration, but instead focus on how you weigh daily concerns for yourself and others. A recent whiskey fueled conversation with a hyper-intelligent woman led to discussing moral philosophy (a common cowboy topic) where I made mention of the basic dichotomy of exocentrism [...]

Occupy Buffet

| February 21, 2012

TweetObama is a magician, and Occupy Wall Street is his audience. Magic acts consist largely of misdirection. While Penn Jillette’s painted fingernail on his left hand distracts your attention, his right hand pulls cards from outside your field of view. Barack Obama stokes fire in Occupy Wall Street’s belly, raising anger against banks and big [...]

Fiat Funny

| February 14, 2012

TweetOur friends at reason.tv took the time to nail Clint Eastwood and Barack Obama, all in one tidy video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j_8qCbHsUA for email subscribers).

Rham Headed

| February 11, 2012

TweetMany folks think the perpetually foul-mouthed mayor of Chicago long ago lost his mind. We now have proof. Rham Emanuel, Barack Obama’s former Chief of Staff, has tossed his political head into the never ceasing Chicago gun control abattoir. This new-found champion of lost causes now demands the Land of Lincoln (you remember him, the [...]

Waiving Goodbye

| February 9, 2012

TweetObama is wavering. I do not imply that Barack is backing away from self-anointed splendor or as pretender to a non-existent throne. Nor is he shedding his socialist snake skin. Instead he has adopted the mode of Saudi sheiks, holding audiences in which he bestows beneficence and dispense special dispensations. Obama has created the presidential [...]