http://www.guysmith.org/blog Writer, songwriter, political provocateur Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:26:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink." -- George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language", 1946 http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2008/08/19/orwell-on-obama/ I posted a rough hack of a 2003 song I wrote when I first subjected myself to the irony of Internet dating ... and all the psychotic dementia that can induce. Titled "Electronic Love" there is enough innuendo to make the lyrics amusing. For anyone who has seen how the net ... http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2008/08/11/rough-cut-of-electroniclove/ Anyone retaining respect for the United Nations will jettison their misguided sentiments next year. But there is an option. Come spring when even atheists catch a glimmer of God in the annual renewal of life, the U.N. will host an anti-racism conference. Like most Orwellian institutions, the name given saints disguises ... http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2008/08/10/an-un-united-nations/ John Edwards claims he is not the father of a child whelped by the woman with which he had an affair. For months Edwards publicly denied his tryst and now he denies he spawned the scion out of wedlock. Where was Bill Clinton nine months before the blessed event? While confessing ... http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2008/08/08/john-edwards-lies-then-confesses/ I spent the morning rubbing shoulders with politicians and other disreputable characters. Normally an amputation without anesthesia would be preferable, but in this case I was enjoying the commissioning of the new Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf. This ex-cowboy ended up in the company of unsavory elected ruffians by virtue of having grown-up ... http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2008/08/04/coast-guard-cutter-bertholf-commisionin/ Is Obama nano-thin or jello? I spent an enjoyable hour chatting with my childhood chum and painfully funny fellow Chris Muir, creator and chief instigator of the Day By Day Cartoon. We share an insatiable appetite for politics and bashing anyone remotely disingenuous. So naturally we talked a long time about ... http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2008/08/03/obama-is-nano-jello/ Evidently San Francisco is populated entirely by children. Adults appear to be in short supply given the paternalistic exuberance of the city's Board of Supervisors. The sups suffer under the odd delusion that they have acquired the power to control the lives of adults and free commerce to boot. ... http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2008/08/02/san-francisco-bans-everything/ Barack Obama is playing the race canard ... again. Responding to a reporter, Obama claimed that the McCain camp was "... going to try to ... make you scared of me ... you know, ‘he doesn’t look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills.”‘ This is not the first time ... http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2008/07/31/obama-plays-the-race-canard/ Well, I'm evidently not the only cowboy in San Francisco these days, but I am the one with his clothing on and not in trouble with the law. Robert Burck has ample New York notoriety for being the "Naked Cowboy".  He roams around Times Square in his tighty-whities, strumming on a ... http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2008/07/28/busted-bronco/ The ability to laugh remove can remove pain ... mainly by preventing us from telling people what we really think about them. A book I'm peddling to publishers titled Catalog of Canards describes how political lies are created and spread. My tongue-in-cheek prose help mollify the reader who otherwise would ... http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2008/07/24/stanford-law-prof-is-nuts/