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) | Jan 4, 2021 | Activism (Petitions and Such), DMH Personal News, English Usage, In The News
Image: Christian Nationalist Libertarian © 2021 David M. Hodges, piouseye.com. Created by combining, modifying, and adding to public domain images obtained via goodfreephotos.com and publicdomainpictures.net. Preface ˅ Our nation’s degeneration into tyranny...
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
Image: PiousEye Storm Warming. Created by David M. Hodges for the Pious Eye site by combining and modifying a public domain image and an image by Wikimedia Commons user Dudva, the latter of which was used and reworked in accord with its Creative Commons 4.0 CC BY-SA...
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) | 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) | Feb 3, 2019 | Brief Notices, Pet Peeves, Random Commentary
The United States was not founded as just a “representative democracy,” nor is “representative democracy” a synonym for “republic.” The point of the American Republic established by the U.S. Constitution is that free and sovereign...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jul 3, 2018 | Errata, Random Commentary
This is my first entry in the new errata category, which in all likelihood will one day be the category with the most posts. Entries in the category will note instances where I have erred or might have erred in past statements, here on the Pious Eye site or (possibly)...