Cowboy Confessional

Guy Smith – writer, songwriter, political provocateur

Lucifer’s Lambs

| May 20, 2013

TweetLooks like we may be manufacturing our own demons. Our gray orb has always produced psychopaths. Some folks are born bad as history and certain fiction maintains. Charlie Manson, Ted Bundy, Chuck Schumer – each ejected from the womb ready to wreak evil upon us. It is almost as if there is a genetic predisposition in [...]

Preposterous Politicos

| April 15, 2013

TweetAmerica’s Political Theater of the Absurd has a new set of actors. Completely anticipatable, but always surprising, are outburst from politicos and propagandist. Their campaigns are largely punctuated with rhetorical nonsense which we cooler heads dismiss as partisan positioning more designed to firm a base than sway undecided voters. Yet once in an increasingly frequent [...]

Forget, Not

| April 1, 2013

Tweet“Shame on us if we’ve forgotten,” was Barack Obama’s lament concerning the Sandy Hook school slaying. But we will forget. It is human nature, and not a subject of shame despite Obama’s attempts to make it such. To forget is natural. Memories not etched strongly and personally fade. Even great memories of people loved and [...]

Fingering Feinstein

| March 25, 2013

TweetSome days mocking elites is too easy. It would be more fun if they offered a challenge and if the flipside of their misbehavior wasn’t routinely repugnant. Being in San Francisco, one of my favorite snobs to snub is our own Senior Dementia Senator, Dianne Feinstein. Being of autocratic attitude, she is simply ripe for [...]

American Subversives

| March 18, 2013

TweetAmericans are subversive by nature, which means the coming years will be highly entertaining times for us all. I suspect the condition is congenital. Nearly everyone who came to America – be it crossing the Atlantic 400 years ago on the Mayflower or crossing the Rio Grande yesterday – subverted governmental control in order to [...]