Cowboy Confessional

Guy Smith – writer, songwriter, political provocateur

Factual Video

| June 12, 2010

Normally I issue take-down orders when I see someone use my copyrighted “Gun Facts” book name, or when they fail to give me proper credit for the raw material.  But in this case I may let it slide.  They fellow did an interesting job.

Budgetary Buggery

| May 9, 2010

The Greek economy is bofo’ed (sorry, couldn’t resist). Predicting economic doom is best done by Malthusians and other enfeebled individuals, so I hesitate to step in their pile of intellectual effluvium.  Yet it is difficult to look at Greek government excess and Grecian socialist selfishness and not predict that the land that whelped Plato and [...]

Bad Bard

| April 28, 2010

While watching yet another production of Hamlet I discovered that the play is custom made for over acting.  It as if the Bard created a production for showcasing inept actors.  A great production of Hamlet is about as rare as an honest politician.

Tax Tonnage

| April 3, 2010

190 pages.  TurboTax cranked out 190 pages of tax forms, schedules and worksheets just for little ‘ole me to satisfy Uncle Sugar and Governor Arnie. 190 pages for one man.  One small rain forest of paper. This is the symbol of socialism (I would say the ‘poster child’ but posters require paper, and I’m fresh [...]

Journal-less

| March 15, 2010

Everybody is the media. Like any ecosystem, the media cannot be destroyed, but it does evolve.  Subjective are all opinions if new ecosystems are preferable to older ones (for example, would Greenland prefer to be green again, as when it was first discovered).  Bacteria thriving in a cesspool might well object to humans adding disinfectant. [...]