Interestingly, 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)
Pat’s Polemics
On-going brilliance
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)
Of the four counts against Trump……….
08/02/2023 Pat Barrett Add Comment“one count of conspiracy against rights refers to Trump and his co-conspirators alleged attempts to “oppress, threaten and intimidate” people in their right to vote (Continue Reading)
The MAGA defense of a killer
07/22/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentThe harrying of John Wilkes Booth by the government was a deep state operation. What did he do? We have to understand his frame of (Continue Reading)
Is this the key to good health?
07/14/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentYes. It may be exercise. As I near (really close) 82 and am in good health, I get indicators that not only am I doing (Continue Reading)
Rebels……….really?
07/12/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentNo one is going to protest a 50+ year high school reunion where to old and now replaced mascot was a Confederate soldier known as (Continue Reading)
SCOTUS has delivered on the Conservative Dream
06/30/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentMassive blows have been struck by SCOTUS to revert to control by White men over women and Blacks.
What Libertarians Believe = What Libertarians Don’t Know
06/28/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentI am using ‘libertarian’ loosely, applying it to any economic political thinking that believes everyone thrives if everyone is on his own. Mitt Romney is (Continue Reading)
Give Him a Gun Without Bullets
06/28/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentThe MAGA crowd likes to present themselves as tough and aggressive. They sport weapons. That means so much to them. So…..let’s give them guns, all (Continue Reading)
Jose, can you see?
06/23/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentSomeone assured me that all the game broadcasts in southern California have commentary mandated to be in Spanish. Better get out your Spanish for Dummies, (Continue Reading)
Our very own Golem
06/17/2023 Pat Barrett Add Comment“They’re mine! Mine I say! Mine!”– Trump about his purloined boxes of classified government documents. All he needs now is “one box to bind them (Continue Reading)
At the Jailhouse Door
06/13/2023 Pat Barrett 1 CommentAs Trump is finally facing accountability under Jack Smith, we will want to project Trump’s “coverage” in our nation’s history textbooks. He will be reviled (Continue Reading)
Denazification of America: the second failure
05/17/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentShelby Foote, the Mississippian who wrote a very readable history of the Civil War, describes the reaction of Southerners to Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation on p (Continue Reading)
With both hands……..
05/04/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentAn ad popped up: Relieve stiffness…. etc. Hey! I need stiffness and whatever I have I’m holding onto with both hands!
A silly plot come true
04/29/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentA recent television series depicts a British Prime Minister who hires an international assassin to blow up a British ship so he can take credit (Continue Reading)
One solution
04/21/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentGiven the gradual turning of the U.S. population toward a non-White majority and its attendant racial strife, why not give free birth control devices to (Continue Reading)
Lost Cause Redux
04/21/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentThe Lost Cause is an affectionate term to refer to the “cause” of slavery. The Lost Cause was followed by The Fascist Terror State. The (Continue Reading)
Lest we forget……….
04/15/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentWe may find a figure rising above the turmoil of history to legendary status. All well and good as long as we see that figure (Continue Reading)
T Rex or T Redux?
04/09/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentThe word often is often pronounced with a t. The below citation from Dictionary.com explains:“HOW TO PRONOUNCE OFTENOften was pronounced with a t -sound until (Continue Reading)