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) | 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...
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) | Mar 18, 2019 | Book (& Other) Reviews, In The News, Random Commentary
The mainstream media were briefly abuzz last week over left-liberal Media Matters’ unearthing of some old Tucker Carlson audio. Media Matters’ Madeline Peltz begins her related article (topically organized transcript collection) with a summary of...
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...