The widow of the slain Green Berets soldier, LaDavid Johnson (there, I did better than Trump) gave an example of deep Black English when she (Continue Reading)
Pat’s Polemics
On-going brilliance
Is it OK now?
10/21/2017 Pat Barrett Add CommentI have titled posts “Is it OK to use stupid now?” “Is it OK to use fascist now?” Now I ask, is it OK to (Continue Reading)
This looks good and I’m about to start on it……….
09/12/2017 Pat Barrett Add CommentTa-N3hisi Coates has a new article in the Atlantic about Trump’s presidency being a negation of Obama’s. Just a glance at Greg Sargent’s resume of (Continue Reading)
The Cork
09/12/2017 Pat Barrett Add CommentTrump reads events moment by moment, making him a cork on the waves of cable coverage – from Michael Gerson in WaPo.
Storms: real and metaphorical
09/08/2017 Pat Barrett Add Comment“The billionaire founder of the Virgin Group rode out the storm in a fortified wine cellar” Now there’s a man who knows how to weather (Continue Reading)
Letter to a responsible conservative
08/03/2017 Pat Barrett Add CommentAt the following site, you can find Prof. Schuck’s presentation https://www.c-span.org/video/?425962-2/peter-schuck-discusses-one-nation-undecided I respond to it below. He asks us to resolve as far as possible (Continue Reading)
Peeking out from under the bus
08/03/2017 Pat Barrett Add CommentAfter more than six months in office Pres. Trump has indeed delivered on his promise to the American people that he would be a disrupter. (Continue Reading)
Like a year are two weeks under Trump
07/26/2017 Pat Barrett Add CommentI wrote two weeks ago about the establishment of the post-WW II New World Order under U.S. leadership. Today I heard a great discussion on (Continue Reading)
Jade Helm 15 and Congolese troops
07/06/2017 Pat Barrett Add CommentIn 2015, conspiracy theorists took a standard though large military exercise named Jade Helm 15 into their grip and riled up the wing nuts around (Continue Reading)
Small town, Midwest, all wrong
06/15/2017 Pat Barrett Add CommentA newspaper editor defends its endorsement of Trump. Following the column, I will point out a few things. The following url should take you to (Continue Reading)
Trump and the Soviets – how language is corrupted
06/15/2017 Pat Barrett Add CommentI just started watching an appearance by Masha Gessen, a frequent guest on MSNBC and elsewhere. She returned to her native Russia in the early (Continue Reading)
OK, we’ll switch to baby seals
06/08/2017 Pat Barrett Add CommentNicole Wallace, the Republican commentator on MSNBC, said of Trump’s son’s slurs against Comey’s ethics that is was rich at best and pathetic at worst (Continue Reading)
Well then, who were they?
06/05/2017 Pat Barrett Add CommentSee the WaPo editorials (if you can get to it using this, good: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/06/05/its-time-to-bust-the-myth-most-trump-voters-were-not-working-class/?utm_term=.3632bd5e2dd3&wpisrc=nl_evening&wpmm=1 Otherwise, go to the WaPo column June 5 to read it (Continue Reading)
What lie from a high government official bothers you the most?`
05/31/2017 Pat Barrett Add CommentI did not have sex with that woman. I did not meet with any Russians. #1: you’re a conservative #2 you’re a liberal
you broke my glasses and stole my lunch money
05/27/2017 Pat Barrett Add CommentTrump supporters will go to their graves believing that the entire Russia connection is one giant conspiracy by the Establishment (incl GOP), the intelligence services, (Continue Reading)
Why the police didn’t act
05/20/2017 Pat Barrett Add CommentComplaints poured in that the D.C. police did not act vigorously against the thugs making up Turkish President Erdogan’s security force who attacked peaceful protesters (Continue Reading)
Great Saturday morning: coffee and these headlines:
05/20/2017 Pat Barrett Add CommentTrump’s Scandals Stoke Fear for 2018 Midterms Among Republicans Nationwide Here Comes the GOP Bloodbath Waking up to headlines like these in the Washington Post (Continue Reading)
What can they say now?
05/19/2017 Pat Barrett Add CommentThe entire issue of race, roiling the electorate as it does, really should disappear. It’s been called a dead issue since the Emancipation Proclamation, the (Continue Reading)
The Turning Point
05/17/2017 Pat Barrett Add CommentThe designation of a special prosecutor by the Ass’t. A.G. is the turning point in the Trump era we will all look back on. This (Continue Reading)
Trump the Unhinged
05/13/2017 Pat Barrett Add CommentJohn McLaughlin, former CIA director, jumped on the wagon a few of us jumped on earlier. Even during the campaign, I said the candidate, Trump, (Continue Reading)
What George Will said
05/10/2017 Pat Barrett Add CommentGeorge Will wrote a stunning piece on Trump wherein he appraises Trump’s inability to think and speak clearly to a disability. Finally, a major figure (Continue Reading)
Tuesday night massacre
05/09/2017 Pat Barrett Add CommentI was working on my massive blog entry “What Conservatives Think” today and as I tried to sink into a nap to get away from (Continue Reading)
Why they hate them
04/30/2017 Pat Barrett Add CommentI just watched a show on the Smithsonian Museum of African-American culture and as I watched the Obamas rap along with the rappers and Michelle (Continue Reading)