Rusty Bowers drove the wagon with us in it lickity-split right up to the gates of hell, then slammed on the brakes and reined in (Continue Reading)
Pat’s Polemics
On-going brilliance
Civic Discourse ???
06/04/2022 Pat Barrett Add CommentHow do you have civic discourse with anyone in a party that has put into place nation-wide a scheme to not count votes? What do (Continue Reading)
If Not Sandy Hook, Nothing
05/24/2022 Pat Barrett 2 CommentsBuffalo? Uvalde? I still haven’t wrapped my head around Sandy Hook. How about Parkland? And…… and………. Orlando……… and Denver……….. and Aurora…….. and ……… I think (Continue Reading)
Do you really doubt it………..?
01/15/2022 Pat Barrett Add CommentWhen I saw the faces of the young people caught up in the police dragnet in Belarus, I saw the future of our children and (Continue Reading)
Rage
12/24/2021 Pat Barrett 2 CommentsSo interesting how we talk about the rage of the Trump voters, the left-behind. How about this though?Just tonight (Dec. 9, 2021) I was listening (Continue Reading)
The Fascists Among Us
11/14/2021 Pat Barrett 6 CommentsHaven’t you met natural fascists? Don’t give me the salesman b.s. about “I’ve never met a man I didn’t like.” You know who they are, (Continue Reading)
MSNBC DEADLINE WHITE HOUSE JULY 27, 2021
07/27/2021 Pat Barrett 4 CommentsNicolle Wallace, host, moderates as Matt Dowd and Eddie Glaude reflect on the testimony of Capitol Police Officer during the Jan. 6 Insurrection hearings. Nothing (Continue Reading)
Role Reversal
10/26/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentWith the election upon us, I’ll post this list of reversals, things the conservatives accused liberals of that have proved to be true of them, (Continue Reading)
What’s on YOUR internet?
10/26/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentI guess browser is the proper word. Anyway, in the face of trolls and internet racists we can find really nice things on the internet. (Continue Reading)
The phony Romans
10/17/2020 Pat Barrett Add Comment“The embrace of demographic determinism is self-defeating: it causes the right to cease any attempt to do the hard work of persuasion and winning new (Continue Reading)
The Great Migration
10/15/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentNo, not the one Wilkerson wrote so brilliantly about. The one Brian Williams denominated thus in reference to the Republicans edging away from Donald Trump (Continue Reading)
Flotsam and jetsam of the great GOP foundering
10/15/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentAs pieces of reality float by, I grasp at one after the other, hoping to find one large enough and stable enough to carry me (Continue Reading)
Divided
10/03/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentWe live in a democracy where urging people to vote has become a “partisan issue.”
From here? Straight down or straight up?
10/03/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentThe HVAC guy was over today, a guy in his 50s, who casually mentioned Obama’s foreign birth and a few other Fox News hunks of (Continue Reading)
Who Are These People?
09/24/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentJoe Scarborough this morning asked, Who are these people? referring to people at the Trump rally who cheered when he described a reporter being injured (Continue Reading)
R.I.P. R.B.G.
09/18/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentWhat we hoped against has come. Before he body was cold, McConnell declared a nominee would be brought to the floor for a vote quickly. (Continue Reading)
Peer Review
09/17/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentOnly one instance of this term appears in this blog:” I found that people whose knowledge and wisdom I had reason to respect presented this (Continue Reading)
whistleblew
09/15/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentFor the first time I heard the verb ‘whistleblow’. I don’t know if this goes under ‘language change’ or ‘from under the bus’. A very (Continue Reading)
Donald Trump wants to believe he matters……..
09/01/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentThat is a line in John Dean and Bob Altemeyer’s new book on Trump, “Authoritarian Nightmare.” After doing a decent job of outlining Trump’s childhood, (Continue Reading)
One Trumper got it right
08/14/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentAn administration official said that voting rights are a liberal left priority. He is right. The right has always gone along with efforts to keep (Continue Reading)
What Are They Clapping For?
08/09/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentTrump held a “press conference” at his country club and a reporter (the A.M. Joy host Zerlina Maxwell noted they were all females) kept pressing (Continue Reading)
To S & D
08/08/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentSo long……. For the second to the last quarter of my life (I hope) I have been trying to get to just what conservatism is. (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)