Cowboy Confessional

Guy Smith – writer, songwriter, political provocateur

Semitic Smites

Guy Smith | June 10, 2009

Some days the universe conspires to uncover the blatantly obvious.
In and around the nation’s capital today, Jews were targets, in literal and metaphorical senses. At the Holocaust Museum an aging bigot with an old squire rifle shot a security guard. It was a senseless act by someone so consumed with hatred that his [...]

Dopey Economics

Guy Smith | February 18, 2009

Economics is an ecosystem, and all humans are different species with money being their common food source. Like other ecosystems, the economy adjusts as pressures arise and species adapt to the changing environment.
This is why drugs are cheap and drug profits remain higher than drug users.
The United Kingdom’s Home Office (and organization with a [...]

Photo Op-ponents

Guy Smith | February 16, 2009

People committing crimes do not like to be photographed in the act.
This includes cops.
I grew up with law enforcement officers (LEOs). My childhood friend was the son of the local police chief and I was riding shotgun in squad cars before I was old enough to drive. I discovered that the best part [...]

Supply Silliness

Guy Smith | September 1, 2008

I came across a quote by an economist named R. T. Naylor. I can’t vouch for anything Naylor has written though his book titles are entertaining (Wages Of Crime, Hot Money and the Politics of Debt and Patriots and Profiteers: On Economic Warfare).
The quote that caught my attention was “… never in history [...]

Tribune Tyrant

Guy Smith | July 5, 2008

It never troubles me to call out a liar. When they work in the media it is a downright pleasure.
This tiny tale relates the troubled souls of the Oakland Tribune, two of their writers and its Gollum editor Martin Reynolds. Martin’s misdeeds are a case study in why old media in general and [...]