The Well Run Dry

I'm in the process of gathering more information for the next post in my series on Gene Sharp's book From Dictatorship to Democracy ...

As I write this, I am suffering from a bit of sleep deprivation.  I spent too much of last night and early this morning reading the news abo...

Jalopy car in Joshua Tree National Park Image by Jarek Tuszynski Posted to Wikimedia Commons on 28 December 2008 under a  Creative Commons A...

Things in the United States are turning out about as I expected in the aftermath of Joe Biden's election victory over Donald Trump.  Tru...

  For everyone who exalts himself shall be humbled, and he who humbles himself shall be exalted. - Luke 14:11 Whenever a person quotes a Bib...

Mr. Trump, You have lost your bid for re-election.  I know that the Bible says that we are to be subject to our leaders.  But you have two s...

As we approach more closely the conclusion of election season in the United States, I thought it would be good to list four ways in which th...

This is a follow-up to my most recent post.  Lately, reality (both personally and as a U.S. citizen) has been so stressful that I've tak...

This past weekend I had fully intended to post my third installment of my commentary and "study guide" for Gene Sharp's book F...

Here's another "quickie" post.  And it has to do with White American foreign policy under Donald Trump and the perceptions of ...

The Internet seems to be abuzz lately with news stories and opinion pieces about Donald Trump's efforts and intentions to make himself P...

  What a devil! Human dysfunction tends to run in patterns.  And this blog has noted several times the similarities in the types of dysfunct...

  Twilight comes early. Sunset choked to death on clouds of ash.  "Eat the fruit of this tree and you shall be like God" - ...

I don't watch or listen to news much these days.  (Even I have limits on how much garbage I can swallow in a day!)  So it was surprising...

COVID-19 continues to march through the "Land of the Free," leaving a trail of death, joblessness and bankruptcies of small and la...

Two Filthy Men, Two Filthy Regimes Image captured in late 2016, retrieved from phorum.vietbao.com   on 21 June 2020.  Similar images ...

In two of my most recent posts I wrote that protest is not a good method of nonviolent resistance in the age of Trump, because oppressors kn...