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To the Gates of Hell With Rusty Bowers

  06/26/2022       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

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)

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Civic Discourse ???

  06/04/2022       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

How 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)

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If Not Sandy Hook, Nothing

  05/24/2022       Pat Barrett      2 Comments

Buffalo? 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)

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Do you really doubt it………..?

  01/15/2022       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

When 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)

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Rage

  12/24/2021       Pat Barrett      2 Comments

So 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)

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The Fascists Among Us

  11/14/2021       Pat Barrett      6 Comments

Haven’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)

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MSNBC DEADLINE WHITE HOUSE JULY 27, 2021

  07/27/2021       Pat Barrett      4 Comments

Nicolle 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)

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Role Reversal

  10/26/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

With 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)

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What’s on YOUR internet?

  10/26/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I 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)

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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)

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The Great Migration

  10/15/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

No, 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)

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Flotsam and jetsam of the great GOP foundering

  10/15/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

As 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)

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Divided

  10/03/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

We live in a democracy where urging people to vote has become a “partisan issue.”

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From here? Straight down or straight up?

  10/03/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

The 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)

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Who Are These People?

  09/24/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Joe 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)

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R.I.P. R.B.G.

  09/18/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

What 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)

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Peer Review

  09/17/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Only 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)

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whistleblew

  09/15/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

For 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)

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Donald Trump wants to believe he matters……..

  09/01/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

That 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)

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One Trumper got it right

  08/14/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

An 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)

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What Are They Clapping For?

  08/09/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Trump 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)

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To S & D

  08/08/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

So 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)

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I’ve got my answer!!

  08/01/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

For 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)

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