Cowboy Confessional

Guy Smith – writer, songwriter, political provocateur

Fiat Funny

| February 14, 2012

TweetOur friends at reason.tv took the time to nail Clint Eastwood and Barack Obama, all in one tidy video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j_8qCbHsUA for email subscribers).

Chavez Shuffle

| September 29, 2011

TweetPeople with means in socialized medicine countries manage to survive predictably inept government medical care by avoiding the stuff. People without means die. Little surprise then that socialist madman and full-time maniac Hugo Chavez has suffered kidney failure via government health care, and is now bugging out to a private hospital. This may be the [...]

Climbing Higher

| August 1, 2011

TweetLife changes you. Sometimes, when the alleged gods are sober, wonderful things occur, from kittens to watching your congress critter have conniptions when suddenly forced to seek unemployment insurance. Other times the universe delivers a swift kick to your spiritual crotch, and you have a choice: crumble to the asphalt of reality, or use disaster [...]

Bloody Sporting

| February 9, 2011

TweetIronic revenge is another proof point that Gawd not only has a sense of humor, but is also a tightly twisted fellow (or perhaps a pan-galactic woman with planetary PMS). Cock fighting is popular in California, and not just here in San Francisco, though the local variety is not a blood sport.  Elsewhere in the [...]

Bloody Wonderful

| January 31, 2011

Tweet“Hello?” shouted the registration nurse.  “Everybody!  See this man here?” We had no choice.  Red Cross blood donor waiting rooms are not a gallery of amusing distractions, and the gentleman standing at the sign-in counter easily cleared six foot three – kinda hard to miss.  He might have shrunk to six-two if he had removed [...]