Cowboy Confessional

Guy Smith – writer, songwriter, political provocateur

Mexican Statistical Standoff

| April 5, 2011

If irony and serendipity married, they would take up residence in Washington D.C. to have oodles of congenial company. Today’s example of how coincidence comically collides comes in part from the Clueless California Caliph, Senator Dianne Feinstein.  After a small handful of occasionally antique American firearms were found in Mexico, Dianne declared “It is unacceptable [...]

Fear Fulfillment

| March 11, 2011

Fear can be induced when o-dark-thirty phone calls warns of an approaching tsunami. That is how this Friday began as east coast relatives, already consuming their muffins and morning news, learned that my region of residence was under a tsunami warning due to the devastation in Japan.  Since the government alerts were still fresh, common [...]

Bloomberg Buncombe

| March 5, 2011

I can’t take Michael Bloomberg seriously.  He now makes if durn near impossible. His Mayors Against Illegal Guns cabal recently purchased a survey to measure public attitudes on gun control, which is interesting because ongoing polls by many other research firms have shown a steady downward approval of more restrictions. Had Bloomberg’s poll been conducted [...]

Meme Mayhem

| January 10, 2011

Bull flop can be measured in velocity metrics. This weekend another case of mini mass murder erupted in Tucson, known to many as the southern crossroads for Mexican drug cartels, but otherwise a joint one would only visit for … well, nobody visits there.  All in all, Tucson is a burg more worried about immigration, [...]

Jersey Bore

| December 14, 2010

It may be unkind to be amused by panicking pantywaists, but I cannot help myself.  So I get an extra year in purgatory.  It is worth it. Being something of an expert in gun control mythology, I’m often lobbed leaflets (in the modern era, emails) by groups seeking your disarmament.  I have dissected their effluvium [...]