You 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)
Pat’s Polemics
On-going brilliance
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)
Typically of conservatives………
08/20/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentThe 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)
Even more on who/whom
08/20/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentInterestingly, 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)
When is it an attack and when is it evidence?
08/20/2023 Pat Barrett 1 CommentIn 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)
I hate it when I agree with conservatives.
08/17/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentMy 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)
A shift in agreement – grammatical variety
08/11/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentChris 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)
Trumpers are overawed
08/10/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentThe 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)
Color vs caste
08/02/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentWhen 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)