By the end of this summer, just during the party conventions and the election, we will see: continuing rise in virus cases, high unemployment, evictions, (Continue Reading)
Pat’s Polemics
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Two paths when we are at loggerheads
07/08/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentWhen you are loggerheads politically with someone there are two paths to take:you can try to persuade the other that you are right and vice (Continue Reading)
The Caravans Are Forming Up!
07/07/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentReports are coming in from border patrol agents that caravans are forming on the southern border of the U.S. Since the caravans consist of U.S. (Continue Reading)
Reactions to Protest
07/07/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentAt this time of apparently endless protest against not only police brutality, the spark, but against an entire unjust, uneven, unequal system of racial oppression, (Continue Reading)
Why Are They So Sincere?
07/07/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentWhen certain responsible parties appear before Congress or any other body inquiring rightfully, justifiably, legally, and with a statutory duty to do so and they (Continue Reading)
The Tale of Little Katie Miller
07/07/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentThe excerpt Maddow published on the show quoted Miller as telling Soboroff: “My family and colleagues told me that when I have kids I’ll think (Continue Reading)
Assorted anecdotes
07/07/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentThis is the start of a new category I’ve been meaning to put into my blog. As the description says, it is an assortment of (Continue Reading)
Culture gets passed on, like it or not
07/05/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentIn these pages I often stress the persistence of African cultural traits in the New World. Those traits came from Africans brought here during the (Continue Reading)
A few Trump goals met
07/02/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentA U.S. border sealed tight? Check. Canada no longer lets Americans cross over into their country. The Canadians are not worried we’ll rape their women (Continue Reading)
Is This It? What’s It?
07/02/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentSo here we are again. Another crisis that is supposed to have an opportunity hidden somewhere in it. But, again, what is ‘it’?It is just (Continue Reading)
BBQ
06/29/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentThis quote from the Zocalo Public Square:The final key factor that tied barbecue to Independence Day celebrations in the South was the key role of (Continue Reading)
Why did the DNC cede aggression against Trump to Republicans?
06/28/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentRecently we have seen a spate of highly effective and even vicious ads against Trump and Trumpers on the part of….. wait for it ……. (Continue Reading)
An open letter to Clarence Thomas or If You Don’t Get Help…
06/16/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentYou said of the S.C. decision today stating that federal law protests gay and transgendered people from discrimination in employment that when Congress wrote the (Continue Reading)
What is lost with the loss of a language?
06/11/2020 Pat Barrett 2 CommentsLanguages throughout the word are dying off. Language death is when no one is raised from infancy speaking that language. So, despite cries of Foul! (Continue Reading)
Denegrofy
06/07/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentSounds weird, doesn’t it? It did to me when my wife suggested it. To be truthful, the term was mine but the idea was hers. (Continue Reading)
The Firebell in the Night
06/06/2020 Pat Barrett 2 CommentsHow many times has this phrase of Thomas Jefferson’s been used to introduce the topic of the African-American presence? Practicing presentism, we are wont to (Continue Reading)
Nyah’s Lesson Jan. 27, 2020 #
05/31/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentLong hiatus and we agreed on regular 5 day a week schedule.The purpose today was for her to notice how much she knows and think (Continue Reading)
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05/29/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentI’m going to put those things on the table……. in a box. Reading so much linguistics now, I immediately put this utterance into my file (Continue Reading)
Nyah’s Lesson Dec. 11 #
05/23/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentVous allez ecrire des notes. Why do I have to take notes?* She picked a gender neutral name for a character who was the object (Continue Reading)
Nyah’s Lesson Dec. 9, 2020 #
05/20/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentI wrote the following on the flip chartNyah et sa mere ont voyage en FranceA Paris elles n’y ont trouve que de pizza et hamburger (Continue Reading)
Could COVID19 Do Trump In?
05/20/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentCOVID19, the Corona Virus, has seeped into our consciousness now in a big way. The virus has the potential of generating a pandemic in this (Continue Reading)
Giveaways
05/19/2020 Pat Barrett 2 CommentsMy use of ‘giveaway’ is like this: the lipstick on your collar is a dead giveaway, my Dear. Here’s one I read years ago: the (Continue Reading)
Nyah’s Lesson Dec. 8, 2019
05/18/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentStarted with more complex grammar and even that I got wrong! Then some cultural stuff.That I got right. Qu’est-ce que vous buvez quand vous avez (Continue Reading)