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  06/16/2018       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

So many themes, they get scattered and lose impact. It seems time to pull some threads together and knit a rope, or rather a hawser. (Continue Reading)

Basics, Magnum Opus redux, View from under the Bus
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Why Didn’t the American colonists pay the f**** tariff?

  05/12/2018       Pat Barrett      2 Comments

Chris Hayes writes about how the common slogan regarding police violence against Blacks is, “Why don’t they just do what the cop says?” The tariff (Continue Reading)

Basics, Magnum Opus, View from under the Bus

Who learns what how?

  04/15/2018       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I’ve written about my wife’s cousin’s experiences learning Italian and Japanese. Tonight he revealed that in English he never could comprehend what he reads. He (Continue Reading)

Basics, Teaching & Learning

To post in every courthouse and school room in the country

  04/10/2018       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

From Steve Schmidt, the McCain-Palin campaign chairman, on what it means to be a fidelitist (new word for me). [on the MSNBC show The Eleventh (Continue Reading)

Basics, Magnum Opus, View from under the Bus

What looms ahead?

  02/28/2018       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

The entry Hate and Special Status discusses a little of Pankaj Mishra’s talk at A.S.U. The rise of anger (his talk and book are Global (Continue Reading)

Basics, Running commentary

Markings

  10/07/2017       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

My son told me how students had set a school bus on fire, one he had been using as a traveling aquaponics exhibit and lab. (Continue Reading)

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Great quotes re punishment and the law

  06/24/2017       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

“Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.” – John Ruskin “For if (Continue Reading)

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My drive for synthesis reaches new heights

  04/11/2017       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Friends say I am good at synthesizing disparate elements. I am better at that than at analyzing, but before synthesizing must come analysis. At times, (Continue Reading)

Basics, Culture, Pat's World View, What I'm Reading Now

Jane Jacobs – the basics of society

  03/17/2017       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Dark Age Ahead by Jane Jacobs, written in 2004 p. 148 In March 2003, a former Federal Reserve governor, Lyle Gramley, was quoted by The (Continue Reading)

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Dynamics around religion in a community

  01/27/2017       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Here’s how a dominant religion in an area can sidestep the Constitution. My wife came to work in the East Valley of the Phoenix Metropolitan (Continue Reading)

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Why language is important

  01/24/2017       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

In going over my essay of teaching Standard English, I said the following and my friend, Brian, thought it worth writing out. So here it (Continue Reading)

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Acuity

  01/20/2017       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Here’s a good example of the almost inconceivable acuity of attention to detail some people have: there are 76 uprights, wrought iron with floral designs (Continue Reading)

Basics, Personal

Tracing the arc of growth to fulfilment or to a dead end

  12/27/2016       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

As I was reading a bit about the Hanseatic League in one of my old history books, the NYT came with a long article on (Continue Reading)

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Where it all starts and where it all ends

  12/02/2016       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Fundamental to my world view and something I consider the starting point in discussing human activity on earth (as opposed to elsewhere?) is sex. The (Continue Reading)

Basics, Pat's World View

A grain of truth in a sandstorm of distortions

  11/19/2016       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

My attempts to engage with the idea that facts are determined by one’s world view and show that world view as well as perspective can (Continue Reading)

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A loaded weapon

  11/18/2016       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

When the Supreme Court supported the internment of U.S. citizens of Japanese descent in concentration camps at the outbreak of WW II, a dissenting voice, (Continue Reading)

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Why not, indeed?

  11/12/2016       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

You get in the express line (15 items or less) at the grocery store behind an elderly person who clearly has a lot more than (Continue Reading)

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Backdoor investigation

  09/21/2016       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

One route to finding reality is the direct approach. For instance, do energy company executives bring women in to their conventions for the sexual entertainment (Continue Reading)

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150: the Magic Number

  09/14/2016       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Truly a Basic feature of life. The magic number is 150. When I was reading a Malcolm Gladwell book I was fascinated by his diving (Continue Reading)

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The charge of those responsible

  09/14/2016       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Personal responsibility is the slogan of Movement Conservatism, different from Republicanism. No doubt personal responsibility is the hallmark of a well-formed personality, but that begs (Continue Reading)

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Underlying factors – covert motivators

  07/24/2016       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

The response to my response to his response to……. I know. But that is the effect of the current handling. Consciously or subconsciously, they know (Continue Reading)

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Further response re resolving problems in society aka politics

  07/24/2016       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

 My interlocutor wrote: CEO?  I left the Navy because they wanted to move me out of fixing things to being a manager.  Thirty-plus years of (Continue Reading)

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It’s complicated

  07/24/2016       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

On 23 Jul 2016, at 23:58, Pat Barrett <pbarrett@cox.net> wrote: > Now we are getting to the heart of it. You talk like a CEO: (Continue Reading)

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