Like many emerging American cities at the time, Phoenix’s spectacular growth did not occur evenly. It largely took place on the city’s north side, a (Continue Reading)
Pat’s Polemics
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Great quote on technology in the FL classroom
07/16/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentFrom Ben Slavic’s TPRS In a Year, p. 132: “If technology really helped kids acquire languages, then it would be used all the time in (Continue Reading)
Start with the basics – a history lesson
07/14/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentU.S. History, First Semester, first day of class We start with documents, the stuff of history. We have foundational documents. One is the Declaration of (Continue Reading)
Tension between immigrants and African-Americans
07/11/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentThe American immigrant story has a foil, African-Americans. Our first encounters with this go something like Uncle Harry telling of his grandfather who came to (Continue Reading)
Today is the day
07/10/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentToday is the day I do what I was supposed to do initially: circle. As I have reported in my earlier write-ups of our sessions, (Continue Reading)
TPRS with Nyah One Year Update
07/08/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentAt the end of last month we reached one year that we started lessons. That is equivalent to a little over a third on a (Continue Reading)
Joy Reid’s takedown of Trump.
07/06/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentJoy Reid appeared on Nicole Wallace’s Deadline White House July 5 and made the following statement about Donald Trump, based on her investigations which led (Continue Reading)
In Praise of Afro-Pop
07/06/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentI sent this in when the program requested testimonials for a grant. The music of Africa has formed the base of a good deal of (Continue Reading)
How bridge the gap?
07/04/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentHere’s a quote I put in my What Conservatives Think entry: John Stuart Mill called Conservatives the stupid party b/c they don’t think much about (Continue Reading)
Now liberals get to be crazy
07/03/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentIn the past we have seen complete nonsense on the right like our own Contrails Kelly here in Arizona. The right wing media spews this (Continue Reading)
The difference now……
06/30/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentTrump is not the problem; it’s his voters. Most of his supporters have been hurling epithets at liberals for years: snow flake, commies, cowards, socialists, (Continue Reading)
Simple answer
06/29/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentA woman was indicted for manslaughter for the death of her fetus. She was five months pregnant when she started a fight with another woman. (Continue Reading)
Response to 2 conservatives re Dems’ issues
06/28/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentThe Bulwark published a response to the Democratic positions offered in the first debates June 26, 2019. Here they are: • In the course of (Continue Reading)
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06/26/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentThe first 3 have the pulse I am talking about. I have used examples without vocals and the last two are nothing but drumming. The (Continue Reading)
Those strange notes
06/26/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentAs I type on my blog, I hear my wife singing in the kitchen. She seldom sings. But the strains of her song are clearly (Continue Reading)
If you cannot show it, is it real?
06/26/2019 Pat Barrett 2 Comments“Show” is not the best word. Thinking about African Diasporic music and the issue of the pulse, I was reminded of the issue of acquisition (Continue Reading)
mishegoss alert
06/24/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentUsually Yiddishisms don’t find their way into this blog since only the German element of the language is known to me at all (except ‘balabusta’). (Continue Reading)
Breaking point
06/14/2019 Pat Barrett 2 CommentsNow that the President has told us in a recorded interview that he sought foreign assistance in his election in 2015-16 and is doing so (Continue Reading)
Essence of clear thinking based on science
06/07/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentFrom Nadine Burke-Harris’ The Deepest Well, p. 171: “Toxic stress is a result of a disruption to the stress response. This is a fundamental biological (Continue Reading)
Metaphorical tropes
06/07/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentI think I have the terms right. Listening to Admiral Stavridis on Morning Joe I noted his extensive use of these. I always thought expressions (Continue Reading)
Not exactly synonyms
05/26/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentRut and groove in their most basic referent are the same thing, but as Wikipedia says: disambiguate. OK. When I was young I was in (Continue Reading)
An interesting crossing of mind related concepts
05/24/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentI read this in a psych report: “…. distinction between capacity to learn i.e. intellectual capacity to learn discrete bits of information and his ability (Continue Reading)
Lost your legs in combat? 2 solutions:
05/17/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentRed State: you don’t get a wheel chair; it’ll just make you weak Blue State: don’t go to war The real world: use diplomacy until (Continue Reading)