Guy Smith | October 1, 2011
Larry Ellison – billionaire CEO of Oracle Corporation and avid yachtsman – would like to thank the 418 residents of Tehama, California for building him a new dock.
This may come as a surprise to Tehama tenants whose only experience with large watercraft is watching upstream housing travel down the Sacramento River during periodic floods. [...]
Guy Smith | June 29, 2011
Why is California an intellectually backward state?
The amalgamated mindset of the Golden State views itself as progressive, leading, positively superhuman. For California to fall behind 82 percent of the nation on any topic, especially one where the lives of its citizens are concerned, makes thoughtful folk reevaluate state-wide sensibilities. For California to be clueless, to [...]
Guy Smith | April 25, 2011
Talk to strangers. Unexpected whimsy may ensue.
Guy Smith | 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 [...]
Guy Smith | August 29, 2009
I could get used to this real quick.
There is a holy place in the unholy town of Berkeley, California. Smelted in the 1960’s along with several thousand other coffee shops (the American variety, not the Amsterdam kind, though in the 60’s the differences were minor) was The Freight. Its proper name is The [...]
