by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Dec 3, 2022 | Annotated Quotations, Book (& Other) Reviews, In The News, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Random Commentary, Trinity Foundation Reviews
Prospective Remarks This post comprises three sets of remarks: The first set laments how anarchists dominate groups I formerly believed I could endorse. I desire a nation, states, and localities characterized by liberty, not anarchy. One group of liberty advocates who...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Nov 28, 2022 | Book (& Other) Reviews, DMH Personal News, English Usage, In The News, Random Commentary
Introduction and Contents My dissatisfaction with American political options persists. As I continue to reflect on what matters most to me in the political realm, I find I must make adjustments to my affiliations and entertain solutions to problems that I would not...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Nov 22, 2022 | Activism (Petitions and Such), Book (& Other) Reviews, In The News, Pet Peeves, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Random Commentary
Introductory Remarks: Culture Peace As Possible God, through the Apostle Paul, urges his people to, “as much as lieth” in them (that is, insofar as doing so lies within their control), “live peaceably with all men” (Romans 12:18). For a while...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Sep 20, 2022 | Activism (Petitions and Such), Book (& Other) Reviews, DMH Personal News, In The News, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere
Welcome to the latest collection of my off-site correspondence, including online discussion posts and, possibly, remarks I opted not to post. As previously noted, all posts on this site are snapshots of my thinking at whatever point in time I wrote them. Since...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jul 31, 2022 | Activism (Petitions and Such), Book (& Other) Reviews, DMH Personal News, English Usage, In The News, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere
Welcome to the latest edition of the series formerly known as “prompted letters,” which chronicles my off-site correspondence with all and sundry. As will be noted in the Pious Eye “About” page when I get around to updating it, all posts on...
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...