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...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Apr 2, 2019 | Activism (Petitions and Such), Brief Notices, In The News, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere
I took some time to check the San Diego Union-Tribune (SDUT) site to see if any of my printed, or my unprinted, letters or other submissions had ended up being posted there. It turns out a few of the printed ones have (all title are those assigned by the paper’s...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Mar 19, 2019 | Activism (Petitions and Such), In The News, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Random Commentary
My trending-left local paper, the San Diego Union-Tribune (SDUT), sometimes known in the past as the U-T San Diego, recently made a point of selecting syndicated editorials that insist on interpreting all support for physical barriers at the border, and all...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Feb 23, 2019 | Brief Notices, In The News, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere
I just posted a comment on Craig Huey’s site concerning a handy resource.
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Feb 11, 2019 | In The News, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Random Commentary
Image: “All we are saying is give peace a chance. John Lennon,” photo by Kate Ter Haar via Flicker, cropped, resized, and stretched a bit. Used under the Attribution 2.0 Generic Creative Commons license (CC BY 2.0). Advocates of a less interventionist U.S....
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Feb 5, 2019 | In The News, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Random Commentary
Image: based on a Wikimedia Commons photo by Vitold Muratov, used under the Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license. Derivative work by David M. Hodges, reusable under the same license terms. On 04 February, I received an interesting fundraising email from the national...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jun 14, 2018 | Book (& Other) Reviews, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere
This is a letter I just wrote to an organization promoting Sikhism, the youngest of the so-called “world religions.” Encountering some Sikh beliefs in a recent editing project, I became curious, visited my local library, and checked out the Sikh Religion...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | May 31, 2018 | Brief Notices, In The News, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere
I just posted a comment on Craig Huey’s site.
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | May 22, 2016 | Brief Notices, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere
Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) posted a comment on someone else’s IVN article, as well as a related one on his own. Bottom line: old closed primary was better than California’s current top-two system, and David wants a “none of the above” option....