We need to revamp our concepts of just desserts. For example, when Todd Aikens said, “Doctors tell me that women have a way of shutting (Continue Reading)
Pat’s Polemics
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01/16/2021 Pat Barrett 7 CommentsMaybe we felt bad about Trump supporters and Trump voters being ridiculed by the leading-lights of the major culture, esp for thinking they are the (Continue Reading)
Bring your bullhorn to Trader Joe’s
01/14/2021 Pat Barrett Add CommentAnti-maskers showed up at a Trader Joe’s to demand entry sans mask. The manager said no. They argued, saying they were there just to shop, (Continue Reading)
The Trumper in 1950s America
12/26/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentThis is the day after Christmas (went well incl. one grandson on leave from USMC with boot camp behind him) and it has been a (Continue Reading)
FDR finesses Pearl Harbor a la Trump
11/21/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentWe are often reminded that the Corona Virus is an assault on America, every bit as serious as 9/11. The death rate is climbing to (Continue Reading)
What is a conservative?
10/25/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentSomeone who wants to conserve things the way they are. Why does he want to do that? Because he is comfortable with that way and (Continue Reading)
Poll Worker
09/25/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentI signed up to be a poll worker. Special to working in the East Valley of Maricopa County Arizona: I get to carry an AK47. (Continue Reading)
Two Kinds of Conservatism
09/24/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentIgnoring for now the variety of ideologies, policies and crank ideas that make up the so-called conservative movement (Paleoconservatives. Reactionaries, Libertarians, Movement Conservatives, Old Guard, (Continue Reading)
RBG imitators
09/23/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentSeeing pictures of adorable young girls dressed as Ruth Bader Ginsburg made me think of the dangers of little girls wanting to be like RBG, (Continue Reading)
Do we have to hold together?
09/22/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentI usually don’t combine Basics and Politics but a book just came out surveying empires across the world and suggesting the collaps of the Roman (Continue Reading)
What else could go wrong?
08/26/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentTicker tapes running out of tape recording the lies at the RNC, another murder of a Black man by the police followed by a deranged (Continue Reading)
It’s All So Vague
08/22/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentAnne Applebaum writes in Twilight of Democracy of the feeling tone of her days working for the British Tory press – Tory here meaning conservative (Continue Reading)
I’ve got my answer!!
08/01/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentFor some years I’ve been cudgeling my brain and writing about the two tiers of what Americans call conservatism. There are the rank and file (Continue Reading)
Two paths when we are at loggerheads
07/08/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentWhen you are loggerheads politically with someone there are two paths to take:you can try to persuade the other that you are right and vice (Continue Reading)
The Caravans Are Forming Up!
07/07/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentReports are coming in from border patrol agents that caravans are forming on the southern border of the U.S. Since the caravans consist of U.S. (Continue Reading)
A few Trump goals met
07/02/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentA U.S. border sealed tight? Check. Canada no longer lets Americans cross over into their country. The Canadians are not worried we’ll rape their women (Continue Reading)
An open letter to Clarence Thomas or If You Don’t Get Help…
06/16/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentYou said of the S.C. decision today stating that federal law protests gay and transgendered people from discrimination in employment that when Congress wrote the (Continue Reading)
There’s a taco in my polling booth
03/05/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentRemember the Trump surrogate who warned us that Mexicans were so entrepreneurial that if we didn’t curtail immigration, there’d soon be a taco truck on (Continue Reading)
No handguns
02/18/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentA friend shared with me a set of dormitory rules from Arizona State College (now NAU) in Flagstaff from around the 50s. Students could have (Continue Reading)
“According to government statistics….”
02/18/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentHow to kill a point….. Any Fox viewer worth his salt knows that when a figure like GDP growth or illegal entry or voter fraud (Continue Reading)
How They Dupe the Dupes
02/07/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentA few years back, during the Bush administration, a huge tax break went to the top and a piddling amount went to the rest of (Continue Reading)
A Perfect Mirror
02/07/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentWhen Trump appeared before his cabinet and congressional Republicans and vilified anyone who dared disagree with him or point out his despicable actions, those present (Continue Reading)
The True History of the Modern GOP
02/06/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentAt the Republican National Convention in the Cow Palace in San Francisco in 1964, a piercing reminder of what these people have been thinking all (Continue Reading)