The Well Run Dry

This will be a short post.  I am trying to get my weekly schedule under control.  However, there is continuing news about the Russian invasi...

Please note the title of this post.  Note that it is not in the passive voice, but the active voice.  Russia has launched repeated all-out ...

A quick post tonight: there are two things worth mentioning.  First, Russian mercenaries claim to have captured the Ukrainian town of Soleda...

Journalists from every nation are now unanimous in their assessment that Russia is losing the war in Ukraine.  There is overwhelming evidenc...

It has been now over six and a half months since the start of Russia's attempted seizure of Ukraine, a seizure which Russian president V...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine which began in late February is now in the midst of its fourth month.  This invasion is not some isolated su...

So...Russia has finally decided to go through with their invasion of Ukraine.  This is Russia's punishment of Ukraine for being Ukraine ...

My apologies to anyone who may have been disappointed by the sparseness of my recent posting.  I have come into a season in which once again...

I have been following Cosmic Connie's blog Whirled Musings for a while now.  I like her style and her clear-headedness regarding curren...

In his book Mere Christianity , C.S. Lewis speaks of pride as the deadliest of the sins.  And he notes how proud, arrogant people tend to tu...

Those who have been following events in Russia know that Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny has been sentenced to a prison term in a R...

I've been loosely following the events in Russia over the past week.  For those who don't know, Russia has been rocked by anti-Putin...

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

I have a ton of things I need to do away from a computer today.  So I won't have time to write another research-heavy post.  But I will ...

A blog is a voracious beast, and feeding it with high quality material can seem at times like hoisting 50 pound sacks of elephant feed at a ...

Those who have read my blog over the years know that at present I "own" two cats, and that the reason why these cats live with me ...

As regular readers of this blog know well, from October 2017 until a few weeks ago, I took a break from writing posts in order to focus on t...

Why, you may ask.  Well, you may have noticed that gas prices have been on the rise here in the U.S.  However, my reasons for asking you to ...

To those who may have missed blog posts from me over the last several months, I offer my apologies.  There are things in realspace which hav...

(Some readers may be wondering why my last two posts (as well as the next two or three) are taking a trip down the path of Russian and Byzan...