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...

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

It's interesting (but hardly surprising) that some of the members of the incoming Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representativ...

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

I have a post in the works which will address the attempts by the American Religious Right to establish a white supremacist theocracy in the...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine seems to have evolved into a war of attrition.  On the one hand is Putin's Russia, the revanchist monste...

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...

The geopolitical events of the last month have shown how foolish it has been for the free nations of the world to allow themselves to be hoo...

Note: please read yesterday's post also. The conflict between China and the West is a conflict of centuries.  And over the last decade ...

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

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...

Sunshine go away today I don't feel much like dancin' Some man's gone, he's tried to run my life He don't know what he&#...

I still have a lot of reading to do in order to prepare my next post in the series on Gene Sharp's book From Dictatorship to Democracy ....

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...