Pat’s Polemics

In his attempt to establish tests scores as definitive indicators of comparative cognitive status among groups, Charles Murray in The Bell Curve states that Asians (Continue Reading)

Two of the most conservative people you could imagine have emerged as heroes (heroines would emphasize that both are female and further emphasize that an (Continue Reading)

“MAGA dumbfucks think America turned to shit in the 1960s, when women, gays, and black people got equal rights. In reality, America turned to shit (Continue Reading)

Everywhere pundits and observers of the American scene decry the fall in trust of institutions. Larger and larger swathes of us feel a growing loss (Continue Reading)

Two high profile people and a civil servant – a trio of heroes.Judge Howell wrote a scathing decision on Trump’s illegal moves as president; Bishop (Continue Reading)

I want to give free rein to some of my less accountable and self-indulgent thoughts. In the coterie of my friends there arises an impatience (Continue Reading)

International aid groups that depend on U.S. funding appeared shocked. “The recent stop-work cable from the State Department suspends programs that support America’s global leadership (Continue Reading)

Stop using words like ‘quite.’ Quite is a mollifier, and softener, a ameliorator, and it smoothes over harsh, true statements. Susan Collins has made the (Continue Reading)

“The American people didn’t vote for all this ridiculous bullshit, and we need to keep fighting.” Gas lighting is defined in my entry To Start (Continue Reading)

I will have toreturn to this entry often. I am perturbed by comments from people who know better. Example1: Richard Haas saying that Trump’s allocation (Continue Reading)

After being married into a Black American family for about ten years and so in the decade of the 70s, the scene was changing in (Continue Reading)

That sounds pretty erudite, doesn’t it. What the fuck is a paradigm and will it fit into my pick-up (almost forgot the hyphen) with all (Continue Reading)

Failure to blog. Since I started campaigning I’ve done very little blogging. My thoughts and energies have gone instead to TikTok of all things. At (Continue Reading)

My massive reading program to get the 10 books checked out of the ASU library read before they’re due and I have to make the (Continue Reading)

My plan is to read at 15 minute stretches in each of the 10 books I have checked out from ASU until I finish them (Continue Reading)

The list is long, as I am going from book to book daily. The Teacher Wars has produced some good information and perspectives already with (Continue Reading)

In 3 weeks some major elements are going to change and I should be able to contribute more to this blog and in an ordered (Continue Reading)

Amazon asked me to review a book or two I’ve purchased since all 9 of my reviews got ratings from other buyers that they had (Continue Reading)

Very excited, I am. Yesterday I went to the library and checked out a book on aspect in English. It looks really, really good. And (Continue Reading)

Reading this new book, The Story of Ain’t, I realize how much a love a book on a topic that interests me greatly. I’m beside (Continue Reading)

I’m reading the Supreme Court Justice’s autobiography translated into Spanish. Unlike many of the books in my book club reading list, this one is hard (Continue Reading)