Cowboy Confessional

Guy Smith – writer, songwriter, political provocateur

Slavish Misconceptions

| January 6, 2011

I once wasted too much time arguing with an idiot. Well, truth be told, arguing with idiots is always a waste of time, but they possess some savant abilities to drag people into their own discourse dementia.  In this instance a Chinese nationalist was arguing with me about everything American.  When I trapped him into [...]

Unhealthy Outlook

| November 29, 2010

Repeat a lie often enough and people start to believe it, especially if the government applies your money to feed the effluvium factory. An ugly example escaped last week when the statistical masochists at the McKinsey Quarterly surveyed people who didn’t pay their medical bills.  Most were broke.  Others claim to have not received their [...]

Technology Suspension

| November 22, 2010

One can (and should) argue that government is the source of insecurity, as will become painfully obvious in five years when the Social Insecurity cash flow runs red, and twenty years hence when the entire system goes nipples-to-the-sky. Given that overreaching government control is antithetical to freedom, it is a tiny logical step to believe [...]

Presidential Peril

| November 19, 2010

Sailors know to look for storms on the horizon.  It is a survival tactic and one that tells them when hatches require battening or when to read last rites. Today’s world is covered in storm clouds and the American captain is incompetent to sail out the approaching swells. America will always have enemies, primarily because [...]

French Inflation

| November 1, 2010

In France it is a crime to display contempt towards a public servant.  In America it is a pastime and blood sport. Sans humour, non? Not long ago a female politician confused the words for expanding the money supply with a form of oral gratification, which is understandable since they both lead to inflation.  During [...]