“The American people didn’t vote for all this ridiculous bullshit, and we need to keep fighting.” Gas lighting is defined in my entry To Start (Continue Reading)
Pat’s Polemics
On-going brilliance
How You Teach Reading Tells A Lot About You
11/29/2024 Pat Barrett Add CommentIf you look through my categories or just search ‘reading’ you’ll find a lot of passionate entries on the topic. But I’ve neglected that for (Continue Reading)
Stress yourself then test
11/24/2024 Pat Barrett Add CommentFor over a month I’ve been coming back from a month-long hiatus in exercise. Not quite true if you count lugging luggage over an unfamiliar (Continue Reading)
In Response to Pundits
11/15/2024 Pat Barrett Add CommentI will have toreturn to this entry often. I am perturbed by comments from people who know better. Example1: Richard Haas saying that Trump’s allocation (Continue Reading)
A retrospective
11/12/2024 Pat Barrett Add CommentAfter being married into a Black American family for about ten years and so in the decade of the 70s, the scene was changing in (Continue Reading)
Time to shift to a new paradigm
11/11/2024 Pat Barrett Add CommentThat sounds pretty erudite, doesn’t it. What the fuck is a paradigm and will it fit into my pick-up (almost forgot the hyphen) with all (Continue Reading)
To Start Anew
11/09/2024 Pat Barrett Add CommentFailure to blog. Since I started campaigning I’ve done very little blogging. My thoughts and energies have gone instead to TikTok of all things. At (Continue Reading)
When cultures come together…. along with other things.
09/02/2024 Pat Barrett Add CommentYou can be fooled when you assume a White person has an intimate relationship with Black people simply because they can actually clap in time (Continue Reading)
Lose? Are You Crazy?
08/21/2024 Pat Barrett Add CommentHere is the essence of why the democratic principle that says you must be willing to lose does not work for conservatives: they believe they (Continue Reading)
Who(m) do you choose?
07/03/2024 Pat Barrett Add CommentFirst consideration: is there anyone they love? If you need a definition of love you are out of this conversation. Think of Trump: who does (Continue Reading)
Time to hit the books and learn Italian
06/29/2024 Pat Barrett Add CommentNo joke, as Biden would say. Between the calls for Biden to move aside (for who[m]?) and finishing Stuart Steven’s new book, The Conspiracy to (Continue Reading)
Alito Tears His Britches
06/10/2024 Pat Barrett Add CommentIn response to a person declaring that as a faithful Catholic she doesn’t see how the Left can be worked with, read compromised with, and (Continue Reading)
The real shift
03/27/2024 Pat Barrett Add CommentFor all my life I and my friends have gently ridiculed conservatives and their “bible based” crack-pot ideas about lost tribes and the naked greed (Continue Reading)
How does Trump survive?
03/08/2024 Pat Barrett Add CommentI don’t mean politically; I mean mentally. Here’s an example: most observers with more than 2 intact brain cells noticed in Trump’s quoting of a (Continue Reading)
M.O. More and more now I hear………..
02/22/2024 Pat Barrett Add CommentThat the U.S. became a democracy for the first time in 1965. What! you say. The breaking point is whether you can say any nation (Continue Reading)
What doesn’t matter in the U.S.
02/10/2024 Pat Barrett 2 CommentsAmendments to the Constitution that some people don’t like e.g. insurrectionists cannot serve in offices under the U.S. Definitions are important but what would we (Continue Reading)
Caste and cast
01/14/2024 Pat Barrett Add CommentAn unlikely movie: Caste, Isabel Wilkerson’s stupendous book on caste in America (and elsewhere), subtitled “The Source of Our Discontent.” How do you make a (Continue Reading)
What bugs you most about MAGA people?
01/10/2024 Pat Barrett 2 CommentsIs it possibly that they go on the internet, read whatever strikes their interest and supports their presuppositions and then think it’s true? In another (Continue Reading)
The key to culture is not language
01/07/2024 Pat Barrett Add CommentI just got an offer of tutoring a kid in Latin. It’s for pay and the kid lives just down the street so I’m sure (Continue Reading)
I’ve got my pride
12/05/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentMy wife tells me how the White folk driving through Phoenix and running out of gas and money would come to the Black churches for (Continue Reading)
Complete with veiled women
11/17/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentI am still hearing about those caravans headed toward the southern border of the U.S. (which I consider starting at the Mason-Dixon Line). So as (Continue Reading)
T-shirts for sale
10/02/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentWhere are the T-shirts demanding, “Free the Fulton County Nineteen!” ????
I’ve been tracking the one third……….
08/27/2023 Pat Barrett 1 Commentfor 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)