Pat’s Polemics

“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)

Joy! Joy! Joy! One of my best trips to the annual VNSA booksale, the biggest in the U.S. I’ve been going since 1958 and I (Continue Reading)

My wife gave me a delightful task: take a shirt back to the Student Book Center at ASU for a refund. Not many interesting books (Continue Reading)

A bit misleading, this category, b/c I’m really going to get into details of reading texts in other languages, but, OTOH, it IS what I’m (Continue Reading)

Thursday I went back to ASU library for the book Finnish Lessons. The first few words bring up TRUST as the necessary ingredient, something I (Continue Reading)

I’m taking a break from my scheduled reading to get through A Media Voz, by Ricardo Maldonado, a book on the Spanish clitic se. I (Continue Reading)

Since I have retired, I decided I should list out at least a good number of the books I want to read. I broke them (Continue Reading)

Just yesterday I got determined to locate books in Modern Greek and Norwegian and finally found bookstores that carry them. I want Harry Potter in (Continue Reading)

Let me give you an example of the kind of thing I like to see in a book on a foreign language. In English we (Continue Reading)

The Peter Mackridge book, The Modern Greek Language, has turned up a gem: the term prolapsis, referring to a pronoun which anticipates a noun object (Continue Reading)