Guy Smith | January 3, 2012
Barack Obama is a discount FDR, and Roosevelt was no prize to begin with. Many men mistreat their women by trying to fix whatever problems they have, whereas women generally prefer that men listen, then fix problems on their own terms. Such is the nature of The People and government, where certain elected footmen mistakenly [...]
Guy Smith | December 19, 2011
Seth Godin, the homeliest man since Henry Waxman, presents never-ending and hyper intelligent insights into what works and what doesn’t. Waxman has yet been spotted saying anything intelligent, which demonstrates that the traits of diminished physical beauty and smarts are not linked. One recent Godin missive accurately dissected the difference between failure and mistakes, where [...]
Guy Smith | 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 [...]
Guy Smith | October 14, 2010
“This appeals to me not,” said Father Dipaolo. It did not appeal to the twelve year old boy laid upon a table, his pants draped over a nearby chair. The gloom of the cathedral’s lower chambers, the coldness of mid-winter drafts, and the oily smoke from dim torches multiplied the uneasiness. It was odder still [...]
Guy Smith | June 27, 2010
Adam Smith (no relation) was a clever Scotsman, a constantly recurring phrase. One book worth reading is P.J. O’Rourke’s review of Smith’s Wealth of Nations. O’Rourke read the entire multi-volume set so “you wouldn’t have to,” for which I owe P.J. an eternal debt. I suspect ingesting a few thousand pages of 18th century Scottish [...]
