The recent and hopeless spate of pronunciamentos on gun violence shows a terrible skewing toward the Left for depressing the ubiquity of military weapons, so (Continue Reading)
Pat’s Polemics
My new Web site
DECLARATION
08/17/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentI no longer feel obligated to listen to or speak to anyone with their cell phone out. If they have an important message, they can (Continue Reading)
Panda Bear
08/15/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentWe wonder at times how our grandchildren navigate their biraciality. They live in the East Valley of Maricopa County, Arizona, one of the reddest parts (Continue Reading)
First Year Mental Health
08/15/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentAn article on Florida’s new requirement for five hours of mental health education a year in high school sounds like a step forward, but the (Continue Reading)
Views and examples of acquisition of a FL via CI
08/13/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentToday is the final day of IFLT, and it has been such a great conference. Yesterday morning, I got the chance to observe Linda Li teach Mandarin, (Continue Reading)
Is this an “infelicity?”
08/07/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentTill now, at least 50 scholarly and authentic books on Urdu grammar have been written in Urdu……. My question about this sentence is about “Till (Continue Reading)
Urban = Black
08/03/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentAgain I heard a speaker use the term “urban” as a synonym for Black in the ethnic sense. Earlier, the mayor of Memphis had responded (Continue Reading)
Compare Calabar recitation to Havana homenaje
07/28/2019 Pat Barrett Add Comment
Bi
07/26/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentIn the prefix bi- is summed up all that bothers the Right: bilingual bicultural bilateral bisexual They might approve of bipedal if they knew what (Continue Reading)
A historian describes my city in the 1950s
07/20/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentLike 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)
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)