by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Nov 16, 2013 | In The News, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Random Commentary
Earlier this week, an email from my local creation museum informed me that said museum had been refused membership in the area’s Museum Council. I’d spoken to employees and friends of the museum the day that some representatives of the Council had visited,...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Sep 23, 2013 | Book (& Other) Reviews
Note: Some format fixes to this old post, completed in June 2023, may cause some direct links I’ve provided to paragraphs to be off a bit. The anchors for these direct links are created by code when posts load, so changes to the posts change the anchors. I...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Sep 9, 2013 | In The News, Random Commentary
Anyone who knows me knows my conviction that contemporary Americans feel too much and think too little. Lack of “impulse control” isn’t just for the “poorly socialized” anymore; it’s a culture-wide phenomenon. Emotionally charged,...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jul 1, 2013 | Annotated Quotations, Book (& Other) Reviews, Resources
“‘Social’ or Distributive Justice.” Chapter 9 in Law, Legislation and Liberty: A New Statement of the Liberal Principles of Justice and Political Economy, Volume 2: The Mirage of Social Justice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976. Pages...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Feb 4, 2013 | Activism (Petitions and Such), In The News
Concerning the Manhattan Declaration (available on the Manhattan Project site, accessed 04 February 2013)….I have just signed this declaration). However, I thought I should note that my signing is not a blanket endorsement of all the wording found in it (though I do...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Feb 2, 2013 | In The News, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere
I just posted a comment on a Salon.com article by Mary Elizabeth “Kill ’Em All, Let God Sort ’Em Out” Williams. My comment should appear here, but my own testing of the link has not yielded positive results. If your results are equally bad,...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Dec 28, 2012 | Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Random Commentary
Image: Anti-abortion activists at Knoxville March for Life 2013, courtesy photographer Brian Stansberry (Creative Commons license). Learn more here. Alas, I remain incapable of achieving extremest-of-the-extreme status. Compared to blogger Justin Edwards (a man likely...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Dec 27, 2012 | In The News
Image: Public domain CIA photo of armed border guards in Berlin. Taken in 1961. Like his typical remarks on foreign policy (remember those Republican primary debates?), Ron Paul’s response to Wayne LaPierre shows what happens when praiseworthy ideals are wedded...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Dec 15, 2012 | In The News
Image: GIF of not-equal-to symbol (math and computer science versions), courtesy Wikipeida user Shubjt under the CC BY-SA 4.0 Deed license. U-T San Diego letter writers have continued trying, within the U-T word allowance for letters (125 words per the letter...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Dec 8, 2012 | In The News
This was created as an op-ed for the U-T San Diego, my local paper, and posted here as a draft on the same day I emailed it to the U-T (that is, 08 December 2012, the day of the U-T article that prompted my remarks). It would not be made visible here until I either...