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 newspapers [...]
Guy Smith | April 27, 2008
News headline writers should be considered criminal suspects until proven otherwise. Because of my expertise in gun control policy, I receive daily feeds of news stories concerning the subject. I was rather surprised today to see two “identical” news stories with very different headlines. One headline amplified the core political story and the other amplified [...]
Guy Smith | March 9, 2008
Liberalism has been called the politics of wishful thinking. In actuality it is the politics of hope above reality, which gives and entirely new dimension the Obama brand. A tragic case in point is the latest squandering of scratch this side of Congressional salaries. In my silly city of San Francisco, the government has sought [...]
Guy Smith | January 6, 2008
I live for irony, and it finds me daily. But sometimes it breaches the line that separates irony from absurdity. There is a certain snake by the name of Senator Don Perata. I know Don, having sat with him in a corporate board while he engineered a few million in corporate welfare. I have talked [...]
Guy Smith | January 3, 2008
I always thought tattoos were dangerous. Now we have proof. I don’t have any objection to tattoos on principle. In fact, a well placed tattoo on a woman can be sexy (especially if one treats them as a set of handlebars). But so many people now have tats that it is no longer cool. Skin [...]
