Cowboy Confessional

Guy Smith – writer, songwriter, political provocateur

Chavez Shuffle

Guy Smith | September 29, 2011

People 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 only instance [...]

Climbing Higher

Guy Smith | August 1, 2011

Life 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 to [...]

Bloody Sporting

Guy Smith | February 9, 2011

Ironic 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 once [...]

Bloody Wonderful

Guy Smith | January 31, 2011

“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 his [...]

Release Rooted

Guy Smith | December 30, 2010

My next book, Shooting the Bull – a field guide to identifying political lies in real-time, is now set for release on May 1st, just to annoy the socialists.