The reason not so many people got riled up over Trump’s declaration that there were good people and blame on both sides in the Charlottesville (Continue Reading)
Pat’s Polemics
On-going brilliance
Parlor game: what does Putin have on Trump?
07/17/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentMy friend with whom I have weekly conversations surprised me with his version of “what does Putin have on Trump?” Not pee tapes, not massive (Continue Reading)
Guess who’s under the bus now?
07/17/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentUnder the bus, we ran into a lot of Republicans. No, not the Jordans or Issas, or Gomerts or Gingriches; it was the McCains, Flakes, (Continue Reading)
Trump holds NATO accountable???
07/12/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentYesterday at the gym the monitor was on Fox and the headline read Trump holds NATO accountable. That’s like the kid being sent to the (Continue Reading)
If you think people are sane…………..
07/04/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentGo to on-line newspaper columns, YouTube sites, and other public places for comments and read the comments. The majority are sane but there are some (Continue Reading)
It’s 1861 in America
07/04/2018 Pat Barrett 2 CommentsJune 24 Jon Meacham just said on TV that we believe Trump is destroying America. Well, the conservatives believed Obama, the Democrats, and the Liberals (Continue Reading)
If Trump had been president in 1939
06/19/2018 Pat Barrett 2 CommentsThe St. Louis carrying German-Jewish refugees seeking asylum was turned away from our shores in 1939. A quarter later died in the camps. If confronted (Continue Reading)
Magnum Opus Secundum
06/16/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentSo many themes, they get scattered and lose impact. It seems time to pull some threads together and knit a rope, or rather a hawser. (Continue Reading)
Who Does the FBI Investigate?
05/23/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentBill Maher on Friday 5/18/18 got tired of Trump complaining about the FBI using an informant in his campaign. “Why are they investigating me?” Well, (Continue Reading)
Why Didn’t the American colonists pay the f**** tariff?
05/12/2018 Pat Barrett 2 CommentsChris Hayes writes about how the common slogan regarding police violence against Blacks is, “Why don’t they just do what the cop says?” The tariff (Continue Reading)
What Trump voters think
04/30/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentTrump and his supporters believe that if Bezos owns the Washington Post, then he gets to say what gets written in it. Their understanding of (Continue Reading)
But he said…..
04/19/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentTrump supporters remind me of some of the people I was raised with. They believe someone who displays certain characteristics, no matter what they say (Continue Reading)
What do balls refer to?
04/13/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentWhen Trump supporters declare, “Finally, someone with balls!” what do they mean? This is closely tied to the Right’s notion of political correctness. They mean (Continue Reading)
To post in every courthouse and school room in the country
04/10/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentFrom Steve Schmidt, the McCain-Palin campaign chairman, on what it means to be a fidelitist (new word for me). [on the MSNBC show The Eleventh (Continue Reading)
The Presidential Library
02/10/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentWhat will go into the Trump Presidential Library? I suggest we find the Vietnamese architect who designed the Viet Nam War Memorial and set up (Continue Reading)
Cruise line announcement
01/12/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentA new itinerary has been added to the Eastern Caribbean and Western Caribbean cruises: Shithole Countries. Our new social director will be the porn star (Continue Reading)
I’ve decided to become a conservative
12/30/2017 Pat Barrett Add CommentI was outside working in the yard because that’s where my yard is, outside. I walked in exhausted from blowing leaves (huff n puff) and (Continue Reading)
The New Year: preliminary reactions and predictions
12/29/2017 Pat Barrett Add CommentAm I serious about predictions? Ludicrous. Mueller indicts Trump. Putin takes over the White House. Mickey Mouse becomes Senate leader. Republicans find morals and Democrats (Continue Reading)
Rolling response
12/01/2017 Pat Barrett Add CommentStarting today, Dec.1, 2017, I’m keeping this blog post up so I can add to it on a daily, even hourly, basis. So often, I (Continue Reading)
How Obamacare Changed the Love Lives of Young Adults
11/24/2017 Pat Barrett Add CommentThis is the title of a summary of research sent me by a friend. Overall, the statistics show that when young people have health insurance, (Continue Reading)
My identity papers
10/25/2017 Pat Barrett Add CommentFor years, the Right, across the board up to the point of the White Supremacy crowd, has excoriated and ridiculed Liberals for the practice of (Continue Reading)
Why We Have to Fight
10/25/2017 Pat Barrett Add CommentToday I was having a conversation with some very nice people I used to work with. One of them made a sidelong remark about what (Continue Reading)
How to avoid Trump’s libel suits
10/24/2017 Pat Barrett Add CommentLegal beagles have something called the small penis rule. If the identity of a character in a book is so clear that anyone can see (Continue Reading)