by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jul 5, 2018 | In The News, Random Commentary
Item 1: Our Drunken Culture While running a few errands on Friday 22 June 2018, I passed by the BevMo! store in Santee, California. (This is in San Diego County, where this alcohol-sales chain participates in a local economy whose other notable industries include...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Dec 19, 2017 | In The News, Random Commentary
Though I’ve given up both major parties as hopeless cases (David M. Hodges, “Constitution or Libertarian Party: Which for the Pious? Pious Eye site, 18 May 2016), I’m saddened by some things about the defeat of Republican Roy Moore (Senate candidate,...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Mar 31, 2017 | Activism (Petitions and Such), In The News, Random Commentary
“Leaving Vimeo” image © 2017 by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges). Created using, and modifying, three Wikimedia Commons images: two public domain image (one by Vimeo, one released to the public domain by user ZyMOS) and one Creative-Commons-2.0-licensed...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jul 18, 2016 | Book (& Other) Reviews, In The News
Image: Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) modification and combination of images showing support of and opposition to homosexuality, acquired through Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons licenses permitting adaptation. Source images are as follows: (1) flags for sale at...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | May 18, 2016 | In The News, Random Commentary
I should note upfront that I am not an official representative of the Constitution Party. Nor have I run my ideas by any official representatives of that party. My reasons for preferring this party over the Libertarian Party are entirely my own. Partisans of either...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Apr 3, 2016 | In The News, Random Commentary
As I began to realize a few days ago, when I spoke of the “Baffling Clash: Pro-Life Leaders v Donald J. Trump,” some of us cannot be part of movements. As someone who believes every person’s inalienable right to life begins at conception, I’m...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Feb 8, 2016 | Book (& Other) Reviews, Random Commentary
I saw a very strange documentary recently: (A)sexual (directed by Angela Tucker, Arts Engine Inc., 2011). The premise of the film, which takes for granted the contemporary belief that people have innate sexual orientations (inclinations to have sex with persons of the...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Feb 6, 2016 | In The News, Random Commentary
Believing true what one wants to be true rather than what actually is true may be a less prevalent phenomenon among conservatives than liberals, but it is certainly not unknown among conservatives. For instance, one needn’t watch Fox New, the Fox Business...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Aug 8, 2014 | In The News, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere
Main Remarks Well, I’ve been able to disprove the theory that my prior, somewhat-related letter only failed to make it into print because of U-T San Diego’s word limit (see also the follow-up letter I opted not to send). I disproved the theory by writing a...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Dec 20, 2013 | In The News, Random Commentary
No sooner had I recovered sufficiently from an illness to watch some news than I was greeted by a story highlighting once again the sorry state of our dieing culture. Members of the homosexual lobby (known in corrupt contemporary English as “gays”)...