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The Statue Problem

  12/04/2021       Pat Barrett      3 Comments

The statues some people find objectionable are typically those of men who exploited and extracted, at least in the Americas. We usually don’t get excited (Continue Reading)

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What’s been happening all along is………

  08/16/2021       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

This is an attempt to put together the essential matters we all have to consider. I was inspired by Francis Fukuyama’s Origins of Political Order (Continue Reading)

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Red State Costco

  11/24/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I live in one of the reddest areas of the country: the East Valley of Maricopa County, AZ, Sheriff Joe country. But it is also (Continue Reading)

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It’s interesting to me……

  10/31/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

That’s how Papal Bulls are titled, by their introductory phrase. That’s me, without the Papal part. So….. it’s interesting to me how conservatives and populists (Continue Reading)

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What Would a Trumper Do?

  09/27/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Fill in. ____________________ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ………………………………………………………..

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Hypermasculinity

  09/25/2019       Pat Barrett      2 Comments

Macho man. Stud. A real man. Tough guy. My attention has been recently drawn to a type of pick-up truck by the name of Ram, (Continue Reading)

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Three big things going on now that don’t involve subpoenas

  05/16/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

It is May 16, 2019 and do you know where your country is headed? We have a task force in the Persian Gulf and John (Continue Reading)

Politics, Ramble, View from under the Bus

Highs and lows of recent times

  05/15/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

This is in lieu of a Christmas letter. Off the top of my head, some highlights. I got my knees replaced and you can read (Continue Reading)

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I hereby demand……….the total misunderstanding of our government by Trumpsters

  07/04/2018       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

July 4. Happy Fourth. I guess I was saving this for today; all I had was the title. When I was young, American history did (Continue Reading)

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Outpouring

  01/11/2018       Pat Barrett      1 Comment

This fits a number of categories because there are so many things that have me enthused and puzzled and worried, personal stuff and overall stuff. (Continue Reading)

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The Sublime Porte

  04/29/2017       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

The Sublime Porte is a French translation of the Arabic ali bab. It means magnificent gate. It is a synecdochic metonym; synecdoche is using a (Continue Reading)

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Response to in-fighting

  11/25/2016       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

While I personally think HRC would have been a very good president, I am more concerned about this in-fighting among the left-of-center folks. For me, (Continue Reading)

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Treading water II

  11/24/2016       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Here’s a reference made by E. J. Dionne in his column: Charles Gaba’s powerful tweet: “Not all Trump supporters are racist, but all of them (Continue Reading)

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Treading water

  11/22/2016       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

There are no end of speculations on what happened. My enthusiasm for politics morphed into dread recently, so I stopped putting items in my Politics (Continue Reading)

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Response to George Will re political correctness in universities

  11/19/2016       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Another angle. From 1960 to 1965 these from the mouths or pens of my professors: China is not a civilization; Ethiopians calling Italians who bombed (Continue Reading)

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Us, too.

  11/18/2016       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

An Indian student looking at universities in the U.S. is deterred by Trump’s election. She is quoted as saying, “I’m thinking of applying to Canada.” (Continue Reading)

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False equivalency

  11/15/2016       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

How much do Republicans believe in democracy? Pres. Obama won two elections by good margins, yet Republicans not only refused to work with him in (Continue Reading)

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Further spinning out of advanced speculations

  11/13/2016       Pat Barrett      2 Comments

NB: this is similar to how I ended my log of politics 2016 but differs in a few details. I’m divorcing it from Politics simply (Continue Reading)

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To back up a story about penises

  11/13/2016       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

An article appeared last week in the NYT magazine and a response to it came in this week in which the respondent said he’s Black (Continue Reading)

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Now we know

  11/12/2016       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

“How can a Black man be “our” president?” millions of Whites asked in 2008. For 8 years they agonized over the usurper, the person who (Continue Reading)

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A Midsummer’s Ramble

  07/29/2016       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

7/18/16 It has been a long time since I have done a ramble. Due to the temper of the times, I tend to write a (Continue Reading)

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