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I’ve been tracking the one third……….

  08/27/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

for about a decade now. About one third of the country will believe the White House is staffed by aliens or lizard people and that (Continue Reading)

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Typically of conservatives………

  08/20/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

The Americans for Prosperity group calling itself a movement provides contact only to donate, not explain why this has all the hallmarks of a wealthy (Continue Reading)

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Even more on who/whom

  08/20/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Interestingly, I am finding that the Romance languages, too, often mixed up Latin cases in deriving their new paradigms. For instance, the dative and ablative (Continue Reading)

grammar & language change

When is it an attack and when is it evidence?

  08/20/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

In a blog entry here on another topic, I came across this that I wrote: ” I’ve come to realize that ’attacking’ is another word (Continue Reading)

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I hate it when I agree with conservatives.

  08/17/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

My friend works as a volunteer in a reception center for asylum seekers. The volunteers were just joined by professionals, referred to as staff. The (Continue Reading)

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A shift in agreement – grammatical variety

  08/11/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Chris Hayes said, “The will of the voters were heard.” This tendency to have the verb agree with the number of the last noun in (Continue Reading)

grammar & language change

Trumpers are overawed

  08/10/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

The court dates for Trump’s indictment on charges leveled by Jack Smith fall around Christmas, thus providing opportunity to delay matters, which is the Trump (Continue Reading)

Complete nonsense

Color vs caste

  08/02/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

When I was young, lots of people would say that the ‘racial problem’ would go away with interracial marriage. They seemed to think everyone would (Continue Reading)

African Diaspora

Of the four counts against Trump……….

  08/02/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

“one count of conspiracy against rights refers to Trump and his co-conspirators alleged attempts to “oppress, threaten and intimidate” people in their right to vote (Continue Reading)

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The MAGA defense of a killer

  07/22/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

The harrying of John Wilkes Booth by the government was a deep state operation. What did he do? We have to understand his frame of (Continue Reading)

Complete nonsense

Is this the key to good health?

  07/14/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Yes. It may be exercise. As I near (really close) 82 and am in good health, I get indicators that not only am I doing (Continue Reading)

Health and exercise

Rebels……….really?

  07/12/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

No one is going to protest a 50+ year high school reunion where to old and now replaced mascot was a Confederate soldier known as (Continue Reading)

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SCOTUS has delivered on the Conservative Dream

  06/30/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Massive blows have been struck by SCOTUS to revert to control by White men over women and Blacks.

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What Libertarians Believe = What Libertarians Don’t Know

  06/28/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I am using ‘libertarian’ loosely, applying it to any economic political thinking that believes everyone thrives if everyone is on his own. Mitt Romney is (Continue Reading)

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Give Him a Gun Without Bullets

  06/28/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

The MAGA crowd likes to present themselves as tough and aggressive. They sport weapons. That means so much to them. So…..let’s give them guns, all (Continue Reading)

Complete nonsense

Jose, can you see?

  06/23/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Someone assured me that all the game broadcasts in southern California have commentary mandated to be in Spanish. Better get out your Spanish for Dummies, (Continue Reading)

Complete nonsense

Our very own Golem

  06/17/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

“They’re mine! Mine I say! Mine!”– Trump about his purloined boxes of classified government documents. All he needs now is “one box to bind them (Continue Reading)

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At the Jailhouse Door

  06/13/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

As Trump is finally facing accountability under Jack Smith, we will want to project Trump’s “coverage” in our nation’s history textbooks. He will be reviled (Continue Reading)

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Denazification of America: the second failure

  05/17/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Shelby Foote, the Mississippian who wrote a very readable history of the Civil War, describes the reaction of Southerners to Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation on p (Continue Reading)

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With both hands……..

  05/04/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

An ad popped up: Relieve stiffness…. etc. Hey! I need stiffness and whatever I have I’m holding onto with both hands!

Complete nonsense

A silly plot come true

  04/29/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

A recent television series depicts a British Prime Minister who hires an international assassin to blow up a British ship so he can take credit (Continue Reading)

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One solution

  04/21/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Given the gradual turning of the U.S. population toward a non-White majority and its attendant racial strife, why not give free birth control devices to (Continue Reading)

Complete nonsense

Lost Cause Redux

  04/21/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

The Lost Cause is an affectionate term to refer to the “cause” of slavery. The Lost Cause was followed by The Fascist Terror State. The (Continue Reading)

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