The Well Run Dry

This blog, The Well Run Dry , started out to be a blog ostensibly about resource depletion.  I have to admit that it has morphed into someth...

These days, I find myself battling a recurrent addiction - the addiction to reading the news.  This morning I know that I have a ton of thin...

  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...

(My title being a nod to the poetry and prose of a British guy who has been pushing up daisies for the last 400 years or so...) When I shop ...

I have started reading the Book of Lamentations in the mornings, having spent the last month or so reading the Book of Jeremiah .  The most...

There.  I said it.  But why did it need to be said? Many people have written about the campaign of Donald Trump that his campaign is entir...

Another week, another mass shooting in America.  (Actually, there were several , but only one managed to be selected as worthy of national n...

  Image taken from The Dreadful Story of Pauline and the Matches, Heinrich Hoffman, 1858. (I offer my apologies in advance to Warren Z...

News is like cheaply made clothes, sometimes - it's flashy and new for a week, then starts to fade alarmingly, and before you know it, t...

8-22-2023: I have decided to pull this post.  When I wrote it back in 2015, I was still under the influence of information sources which wer...

Here is a link to a post I wrote a year ago, in which I described the religious and psychological roots of the grossly oversized American g...

As I have said in the past several posts, the United States is a narcissistic nation which is facing the constraints reality i...

I was reading a few of my favorite blogs this week when I stumbled on the news that the LAPD had recently shot an unarmed homeless African-...

For the last three months, the main focus of the posts on this blog has been the psychological examination of the public American persona....

Update - 9 March 2020: This post should be taken with a grain of salt.  I wrote it during a time in which most of the West was being flo...

I'll begin this post with yet another metaphor. The behavior of nearly all physical systems can be modeled by systems of differe...