by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jan 4, 2021 | Activism (Petitions and Such), DMH Personal News, English Usage, In The News
Preface ˅ Our nation’s degeneration into tyranny seemed to accelerate in 2020 as a new virus and the respiratory illness caused by it, one with a fatality rate that should not have caused any more fright or alarm than the ubiquitous threat of death hanging...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jul 14, 2020 | Activism (Petitions and Such), Brief Notices, In The News
* My belief that the Constitution Party’s 2020 presidential ticket for this year could hope for nothing better than a write-in candidacy was, it turns out, too pessimistic. I learned earlier this week that the ticket will be able to appear on the...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jun 2, 2020 | Activism (Petitions and Such), DMH Personal News, In The News, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Random Commentary
[1] With thanks to Dr. Fauci for helping scare America into its current state, we prepare to move forward. A few items follow. They include: a how-to for those in California who would like to enable supporters of the Constitution Party to vote for their presidential...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | May 24, 2020 | Activism (Petitions and Such), DMH Personal News, English Usage, Errata, In The News, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Random Commentary
[1] Pandemic-excused infringements of liberty and a looming presidential election with typically nauseating major-party offerings have focused much of my attention on political matters lately. Fox News remains the Trumpian news network, of late choosing to emphasize...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Apr 9, 2020 | Activism (Petitions and Such), Book (& Other) Reviews, DMH Personal News, English Usage, In The News, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Random Commentary
[0] A new prompted letter and some delayed-release items related to the use and meaning of certain terms follow. Also, like the last post and the post before that, this one includes materials dating back a while. As a result, some items may feel dated. Since I’m...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Apr 4, 2020 | Activism (Petitions and Such), In The News, Pet Peeves, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Random Commentary
Since most things that occur to me, and to most people, do turn out to have occurred to someone else before (Ecclesiastes 1:9), I fear I must credit this and all my posts to the mystical Akashic records, that storehouse of all that sentient beings have ever thought or...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Mar 10, 2020 | Book (& Other) Reviews, English Usage, Off-Topic, Random Commentary
Some random commentary and other updates follow. Rather than cram all new updates and commentary into a single post, I’ll spread the latest updates over a few posts. I began preparing this post back in early January, but I then set it aside until now; as a...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Oct 18, 2019 | Book (& Other) Reviews, Errata, In The News, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Random Commentary
The relentless march of time continues, making another update necessary. This post is that update. In the items that follow, I bid a sad farewell to the unpeaceable rhetoric of “culture war,” object to the distasteful secular rhetoric of “sex...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Oct 12, 2019 | Book (& Other) Reviews, Brief Notices, Graduate Papers, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Resources
I just uploaded a paper to my Academia account. Find it...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Sep 9, 2019 | DMH Personal News, In The News, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Random Commentary
Introduction and Contents It’s time for another letter drop and general update. As has been the case in past “X prompts letters” posts, references to the “U-T” are to my local paper, the San Diego Union-Tribune, referred to in various...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Aug 26, 2019 | Book (& Other) Reviews, In The News, Random Commentary, Resources
Below: some preliminary remarks on a terminological issue related to a book in progress. The book: George Will’s The Conservative Sensibility (New York: Hachette Books, 2019). The issue: “This is a republic, not a democracy—let’s keep it that...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | May 26, 2019 | Activism (Petitions and Such), Book (& Other) Reviews, In The News, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Random Commentary
Welcome to this latest edition in my “…Prompts Letter(s)” series. The materials following should bring you and this site up to date. Not addressed in detail in my various items below, though touched upon by one of them, is the efforts by Democrats to...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Apr 6, 2019 | Activism (Petitions and Such), In The News, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Random Commentary
I’ve continued to enjoy my new letters-to-the-editor hobby, though none of the letters I sent this past week has made it into print. (Nor has any of them shown up on the paper’s Web site, assuming the site’s search function isn’t missing...
