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Hillbilly Legacy

  08/23/2021       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Of hillbilly legacy myself (West Virginia though raised in Ohio), I was heartened to see J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy (J.D. is so Southern – it (Continue Reading)

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Why SOME sports fans belong in the dregs of humanity category

  07/29/2021       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Full disclosure: I have never been a sports fan. My wife, my son, so many people in my life are “avid” sports fans (like a (Continue Reading)

Health and exercise, Running commentary, Uncategorized

As we escape armageddon, just barely…….

  01/10/2021       Pat Barrett      2 Comments

A recap of what hit us last week, Jan. 4 to now. The Democrats took the Senate, sending a Jew and a Black from the (Continue Reading)

Running commentary

Shithole countries are us

  01/09/2021       Pat Barrett      2 Comments

I’ll bet everyone is wondering where are Pat Barrett’s comments on the events of January 2021. 🙂 To be honest, I don’t know who these (Continue Reading)

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Nowhere to tack this

  08/30/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I’ve tried finding an entry to tack this latest onto but can’t find anything recent that is appropriate: the showdown in Portland between protesters and (Continue Reading)

Politics 2016/2022 running blog Corona Delta/Omicron & whatever's next edition, Running commentary

Black Hats and White Hats

  01/07/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I’m restarting my Running Commentary category to cover what may prove to be Bush’s Iraq and Johnson’s Viet Nam. Most Americans, I am willing to (Continue Reading)

Politics, Running commentary

Where Are We Now?

  10/19/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

As long as Trump was smearing the reputations of Black leaders, tearing Hispanic toddlers from their parents’ arms, denying entry to the country based on (Continue Reading)

Pat's World View, Running commentary

What concerned the Framers concerning Trump

  09/24/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Ex-Republican, former Congressman from Florida David Jolly laid out on Nicolle Wallace’s MSNBC show Deadline White House just who the Framers of the Constitution had (Continue Reading)

Politics, Running commentary

The Obverse

  09/20/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Maybe I’m not using this word right but I’ve written a lot on the conservative pov and the counterpart to that, the obverse, is what (Continue Reading)

Politics, Running commentary

Which California would you rather live in?

  09/19/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

“When I asked her what she made of the college admissions scandal, she expressed some puzzlement. Didn’t those rich parents know that everyone would have (Continue Reading)

Running commentary

Dukes of Hazard Redux

  09/18/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Comedians make jokes about Red Necks. Black comedians make jokes about Black people and White comedians do so very carefully. As ethnic groups integrate into (Continue Reading)

Culture, Running commentary

All liberals are communists and all conservatives are fascists

  09/13/2019       Pat Barrett      1 Comment

Or at least that seems to be the way our political arguments go. If you do not support Black Lives Matter you must be a (Continue Reading)

Pat's World View, Running commentary

Is this coincidence, paranoia, or cause & effect?

  09/08/2019       Pat Barrett      2 Comments

Watching Lester Holt’s series on mass incarceration, I was struck by the time-line: early 70s is when the upsurge in incarceration began and it has (Continue Reading)

Running commentary

Like I said……..

  09/04/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I’ve decided to reactivate my Running Commentary category and here is the first installment: Watching Morning Joe just now Steve Rattner showed a chart where (Continue Reading)

Politics, Running commentary

Drum Beat

  04/22/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

You probably expect this to be found in the category Music of the African Diaspora but it is in Running Commentary b/c it refers to (Continue Reading)

Running commentary

From here forward

  04/21/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

From over a year ago: This past week I ejected myself from all on-line activities except e-mail and this blog. No more flteach, after 20 (Continue Reading)

General, Running commentary

Retooling of category “Running Commentary”

  04/21/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

This will go forward as commentary primarily on what I’m reading as I take notes on it. The category What I’m Reading Now will deal (Continue Reading)

Running commentary

What looms ahead?

  02/28/2018       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

The entry Hate and Special Status discusses a little of Pankaj Mishra’s talk at A.S.U. The rise of anger (his talk and book are Global (Continue Reading)

Basics, Running commentary

The Adults in the Room

  12/20/2017       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

A piece in the New York Review of Books discusses the figures designated the adults in the room, 3 military and 1 civilian, under the (Continue Reading)

Pat's World View, Running commentary

Running commentary April 2017

  04/20/2017       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

A new category eclipsing my commentary on the presidential campaign. As I sit 5 hours a night and 4 or more on the weekends watching (Continue Reading)

African Diaspora, Running commentary
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