Guy Smith | May 6, 2013
Tweet“I suppose I’m reasonably happy.” He seemed a bit sad when he said it. He was one of many people that British television serially stalked from age seven to forty nine. Every seven years a film crew would arrive and see how the lives of these media victims changed, rewinding the tape to remind each [...]
Guy Smith | 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 [...]
Guy Smith | March 4, 2013
TweetI recently attend a memorial service for a cop killed thirty years ago. At this event, a retired police captain told the story of how a thug, a petty burglar and budding drug runner, gunned down officer Robert Davey who, at the end of his normal shift, volunteered for the extra assignment of arresting the [...]
Guy Smith | February 11, 2013
TweetYou are looking at the essence of modern tyranny. No, not me. The email and all the other emails queued in your inbox. They are your slave masters, along with incoming tweets, Facebook alerts and all other digital information suppositories. A popular thought leader recently opined that fear is what drives most people to obsessively [...]
Guy Smith | January 14, 2013
TweetIronic it is that “anti-trust” is a very common phrase inside the beltway. It is growing outside as well. When applied to people and institutions, “trust” means the confident expectation of them doing something specific, such as keeping their word, being honest, not stealing from you and deferring to your personal prerogatives. The antithesis of [...]
