Cowboy Confessional

Guy Smith – writer, songwriter, political provocateur

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 [...]

Fretting Friar Fettuccini

| October 8, 2012

TweetA nation collapsing under crippling debt and facing a fascist renaissance recently convulsed over the pairing priests and pasta. Greece, the cradle of civilization and the socialist end thereof, is among the walking wounded of financially hemorrhaging European failed states. With a debt-to-GDP ratio nearly guaranteed to catapult Greece from the Euro currency, their economic [...]

Mistaken Mobs

| December 19, 2011

TweetSeth 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 [...]

Responsibility

| December 2, 2011

TweetThe best way to get on your feet is to get off of your back.

Andre’s Agitprop

| September 1, 2011

TweetSome politicos are deft at the art of motivating their voting block, employing subtle messages and cleverly crafting concepts that propel thinking people into action. Then there is Andre Carson. Carson, the clumsy congressman from the evidentially former great state of Indiana, was out of his element while in Miami and stumping for more taxpayer [...]