Cowboy Confessional

Guy Smith – writer, songwriter, political provocateur

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Guy Smith | December 7, 2011

Malcolm Forbes is not resting in peace.
Malcolm, the previous publisher of a magazine bearing his family name, produced a quality periodical with content for thinking people. One could debate details or overlook Forbes’ unabashed preference for Capitalist Tools (which is what Malcolm named his personal Boeing 727). But rarely could you quibble over the soundness [...]

Andre’s Agitprop

Guy Smith | September 1, 2011

Some politicos are deft at the art of motivating their voting block, employing subtle messages and cleverly crafting concepts that propel thinking people into action.
Then there is Andre Carson.
Carson, the clumsy congressman from the evidentially former great state of Indiana, was out of his element while in Miami and stumping for more taxpayer financed jobs [...]

Modern Mythology

Guy Smith | July 30, 2011

One 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, or even [...]

Connolly’s Con

Guy Smith | June 17, 2011

Representative Gerry Connolly is odder than your average orb, though his increasing girth and gravitational pull might be adversely affecting the space-time continuum and thus distorting reality.
In recent hearings on governmental criminality, Connolly conned the conference by using several types of lies documented in Shooting The Bull to either protect his party’s leader or assist [...]

Henigan Hyperbole

Guy Smith | May 23, 2011

You just can’t take Dennis Henigan seriously.  Then again nobody has, does, or plans to.
While wasting electrons more valuable than he, Dennis defiled yet another page on the Huffington Post (motto: We’ll Print Anything!) in a rather disorganized rant about a non-interesting topic.  As the vice president (or perhaps president of vice) at the Brady [...]