http://www.guysmith.org/blog Writer, songwriter, political provocateur Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:32:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I’m not sure when it happened, but I know for certain what happened. The People lost control of government when they lost control of their money.  After all, people not in control of their earned wealth are called slaves.  At some point in American history The People lost control of their ... http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2010/03/07/when-the-people-lost-power-to-the-feds/ I admit to having odd inclinations, the least weird of which is donating blood. (Squeamish people ... cowboy up.  I'll talk you into bleeding like I talk everybody into it). About four times a year I clomp over to the Red Cross offices and flirt with some nice young gal who assaults ... http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2010/02/28/giving-blood-is-giving-everything/ Some accidents occur at high velocities, where victims are instantly eliminated from future history (this seems especially true of Olympic luge racers and rock stars).  Other accidents are the slow motion variety, where the impact is plainly visible to onlookers but not to the victims themselves. Of course I speak of ... http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2010/02/26/why-king-barry-obama-is-bombin/ A friend once opined that there is a fine line between being a realist and a cynic. Wrong.  Those groups have widely overlapping memberships. Playful cynicism has always been part of me, much like a congenital defect.  I have gathered, categorized and plagiarized some of the best cynical thinking in the history ... http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2010/02/23/revised_cynical_web_site/ It is widely considered unwise to bite feeding hands, but given the few crumbs I collect from Amazon, I doubt I’ll starve. I was slightly surprised to receive a stack of 1099-MISC forms from various Amazon.com subsidiaries, held companies and associated oddball entities.  I earn a few Amazon affiliate bucks for ... http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2010/02/19/amazon-and-false-1009-misc-tax-forms/ One of San Francisco’s endearing aspects is its unregulated goofiness.  Just have a look at our Board of Supervisors. Ignoring such institutionalized imbeciles, The City is rife with good natured fun.  Granted, much of it involves naked people doing very personal things to one another, but often San Francisco silliness borders ... http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2010/02/15/san-francisco-mass-pillow-fight/ There is a difference between loving a woman and falling in love with a woman.  It is like the difference between admiring the mechanical design of a bear trap and stepping on it. http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2010/02/11/romantic-dynamics/ I love the gun control industry.  They’re more predictable that a politician lying. (Speaking of which, I’m enjoying the sweet sound of silence now that John Edwards has mysteriously shut-up) Whenever laws are loosened, the gun control industry predicts bloodshed in the streets.  I witnessed such first hand in Florida and later ... http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2010/02/07/washingtons-declining-crime-rate-without-a-gun-ban/ A friend of mine came close to witnessing canine cuisine this morning when a neighborhood shih tzu decided to pick a fight with her 80 pound pit bull.  Leashes prevailed, which is just as well.  Shih tzu’s are Chinese, so the pit bull would have been hungry an hour later. One ... http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2010/02/05/shih-tzu-the-other-red-meat/ Nero should have been as thorough. History has witnessed numerous despots fiddle while empires burnt.  Barack Obama, aided by a legislature filled with Caligula’s elected descendants, is moving America steadily in the direction of the Zimbabwean empire.  The parallels between Obama and Zimbabwe’s loco dictator Robert Mugabe stop only at their ... http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2010/02/01/barack-obama-and-the-new-zimbabwe/