An article on dams in Montenegro resonated with a conversation I had with my friend from India who helped me understand an article in Urdu (Continue Reading)
Pat’s Polemics
My new Web site
Communists!
11/14/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentAs the people of Hong Kong continue their protest against being absorbed into and swallowed up by the unjust Chinese judicial system (plus a lot (Continue Reading)
Forcing output
11/14/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentOn FLTeach, there is a thread running on grading, always a hot topic………. well, not anymore. The battles are over apparently and the forced output (Continue Reading)
Nyah’s Breakthrough #2
11/07/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentLast breakthrough, Aquaman looking for a mermaid, saw no follow-up. Nyah has not been interested in providing details or variations in stories. But with the (Continue Reading)
Collectivism, pure and simple
11/02/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentA T-shirt had emblazoned on the back a motto that went something like work for the team, sacrifice for the team, and the team, not (Continue Reading)
Speak English!
11/02/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentRepresentatives of crime victims on the Hopi reservation are coming forth to ask for more help in preventing and solving crimes. One request is for (Continue Reading)
It’s interesting to me……
10/31/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentThat’s how Papal Bulls are titled, by their introductory phrase. That’s me, without the Papal part. So….. it’s interesting to me how conservatives and populists (Continue Reading)
It’s Me, not I? Why?
10/29/2019 Pat Barrett 2 CommentsSue asks you to look over her letter, one she wants to be a bit formal. The only correction you make is from “Paul saw (Continue Reading)
What did you call me?
10/27/2019 Pat Barrett 2 CommentsTry to think of a word, a label, an epithet, that can be applied to White people with anything like the force the N word (Continue Reading)
An elusive word
10/24/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentWhile writing, I wanted to use a word that would be the action of someone intimidated, even frightened, made anxious by something. The word that (Continue Reading)
“though” takes its place among history-making particles
10/22/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentThere’s a book titled A Pragmatic Analysis of Norwegian Modal Particles. That sounds pretty nerdy, academic, and something only a fussy scholar would spill ink (Continue Reading)
Where Are We Now?
10/19/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentAs long as Trump was smearing the reputations of Black leaders, tearing Hispanic toddlers from their parents’ arms, denying entry to the country based on (Continue Reading)
Nyah’s Lesson Oct. 18 #?
10/18/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentOur first lesson after her trip to France. She continues to delight me with her observations and questions. We did a little planning, basically our (Continue Reading)
Nyah’s back
10/17/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentMy granddaughter just returned from France where she had a good time with her mom. They came over yesterday to recount their adventures (some of (Continue Reading)
What’s in Barr’s head?
10/12/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentThis one is not a fill-in-the-blank question. It is very serious. Serious because William Barr is a serious guy who had immense education, training, and (Continue Reading)
I think Trump may have got this one wrong
10/10/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentWhen he said the Kurds weren’t with us at Normandie, he may have been right but his intent was to say the Kurds did not (Continue Reading)
Umbrage taken
10/05/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentI’ve been meaning to take umbrage for some time, a sort of general umbrage derived from poor thinking, usually other people’s. How about that Charles (Continue Reading)
Reading Babel, the author not the tower
10/03/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentOut of frustration at not being able to continue my language reading project of Harry Potter in several languages, I grabbed a copy of Isaac (Continue Reading)
President Pelosi
09/30/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentAs my wife reminded me, if Trump goes and if Pence is compromised and cannot step in, then the Speaker of the House becomes president (Continue Reading)
You like my daughter?
09/29/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentWhen they break into the top top top top tippy top secret server and find records of Trump’s phone calls, it is possible we may (Continue Reading)
What Would a Trumper Do?
09/27/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentFill in. ____________________ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ………………………………………………………..
Hypermasculinity
09/25/2019 Pat Barrett 1 CommentMacho man. Stud. A real man. Tough guy. My attention has been recently drawn to a type of pick-up truck by the name of Ram, (Continue Reading)
What concerned the Framers concerning Trump
09/24/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentEx-Republican, former Congressman from Florida David Jolly laid out on Nicolle Wallace’s MSNBC show Deadline White House just who the Framers of the Constitution had (Continue Reading)