Cowboy Confessional

Guy Smith – writer, songwriter, political provocateur

Cliff Correction

| December 31, 2012

TweetAn ass and elephant could no longer endure their relationship, yet had become so entwined with one another, that death was their only option for happiness. They walked to the edge of Lover’s Leap, held hands, and with a deep final sigh, the pachyderm plunged to his death with the ass’s words fading in his [...]

Corpse Coup

| December 17, 2012

TweetTwenty eight corpses hadn’t even cooled before Michael Bloomberg found a TV camera. (Seriously – it takes about several hours for a human body to reach room temperature, but Bloomberg needed less than three to stammer about what he did not know). Ignoring my rule for waiting two news cycles for solid facts to emerge, [...]

Failed Felsenthal

| December 10, 2012

Tweet“Washington is a fine place for journalists to live as well as to brown-nose. It has plenty of the only type of people who can stand journalists — other journalists — and plenty of the only kind of people journalists get any real information from — other journalists. — P.J. O’Rourke” All the media is [...]

Fattened Cats

| December 3, 2012

TweetDon’t worry about the so-called 1%.  They allegedly came by their wealth honestly. Congress on the other hand … During the Great Recession, the wealth gap between congress and their constituents grew at a spritely pace. At the high end, congress’s cornucopia continued growing by 14% while you and your neighbors’ prosperity plummeted about 39%. [...]