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)
Pat’s Polemics
On-going brilliance
It’s complicated
07/24/2016 Pat Barrett Add CommentOn 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)
How quickly we go deep….
07/23/2016 Pat Barrett Add CommentHere is a post from my blog guru and my response to it: >> And as I send this off to you, a video has (Continue Reading)
We came back to THIS??
07/08/2016 Pat Barrett 5 CommentsLast night we returned from a nine day vacation during which we watched the news only one night, Wednesday, I believe. The two shootings in (Continue Reading)
How to take children from their parents
05/24/2016 Pat Barrett Add CommentMy wife and I were watching a Dr. Phil show where a woman who was clearly suffering from a severe personality disorder was in a (Continue Reading)
Useless ideas on gun violence
12/03/2015 Pat Barrett Add CommentTwo threads of American history are coming together “nicely”, but neither is nice. The one is the freedom of the constabulary to shoot down Black (Continue Reading)
How we define………
03/25/2015 Pat Barrett Add CommentHere’s a nice quote on definitions from Escaping the Delta by Elijah Ward, p. 4: “We have all heard variations on a mythic answer: The (Continue Reading)
What might have been……..
09/06/2009 Pat Barrett Add CommentI am torn as to what category to put this item in, but Basics seems to be the best place, although Pat’s Worldview would be (Continue Reading)
Good program showing how to argue
10/30/2006 Pat Barrett Add CommentWhile I cannot recommend it for everyone, those who want to follow intelligent arguments could do worse than to listen to npr’s Intelligence Squared on (Continue Reading)