Why has Jason Chaffetz so abruptly and radically shifted his stance? Not only did he declare he will not run for reelection to the House, (Continue Reading)
Pat’s Polemics
On-going brilliance
What to do with the Trump voters? Make nice or dump them?
04/12/2017 Pat Barrett 1 Comment“…the lower-income, rural and older voters who formed the backbone of his electoral support” is how Ruth Marcus labels Trump supporters. She might have added (Continue Reading)
One word response to my critics
03/04/2017 Pat Barrett Add CommentOver the years on listservs for fl teachers and on some unrelated places like blogs and columns, someone has criticized me for including discussions of (Continue Reading)
This is rich
02/18/2017 Pat Barrett Add CommentIsn’t this rich. Those to the right of center were entirely willing to believe Obama was born in Kenya. Why? Because it would explain how (Continue Reading)
Two instances of political correctness…. not.
02/12/2017 Pat Barrett Add CommentA foreign language teacher complained that “to hunt” was not in the textbook she was using and commented: “What wasn’t included (probably because it is (Continue Reading)
How to suss out Trump’s mind
02/02/2017 Pat Barrett Add CommentSussing out Trump’s mnd via grammar Trump said, “Frederick Douglas is an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job that is being recognized more (Continue Reading)
Fascism for real
01/31/2017 Pat Barrett Add CommentThe value of education? The emphasis on a college education diminished the role of vocational training in the U.S. From what I can see, only (Continue Reading)
bumper stickers to be ordered
01/22/2017 Pat Barrett Add CommentI want my country back. Hillary/Michelle 2020
Press release
01/22/2017 Pat Barrett Add CommentW.H. press release Kelly Anne Conway re Georgia tornados These are alternate tornados, so no worries.
from Fareed Zakaria
12/06/2016 Pat Barrett Add CommentFor example, his refusal to properly separate himself from his businesses is truly unconscionable and makes the country look like a banana republic.” The republic (Continue Reading)
Final final to the grouplet
12/06/2016 Pat Barrett Add Comment“People that say that facts are facts — they’re not really facts . . . there’s no such thing, unfortunately, anymore of facts. And so Mr. Trump’s (Continue Reading)
School-yard taunts
12/06/2016 Pat Barrett Add CommentAh, the immaturity of the Trumpsters: Barry Soetoro, Barack HUSSEIN Obama…….. the magic of school-yard name-calling.. We now have one of its best practitioners in (Continue Reading)
My Negro check
11/28/2016 Pat Barrett Add CommentI really need to stay away from the comments section of the blogs and columns I read. OTOH, many comments show perceptiveness and a good (Continue Reading)
View from under the bus
11/27/2016 Pat Barrett Add CommentLoving, a movie about the interracial couple who challenged the anti-miscegenation law of Virginia and via the Supreme Court had all such laws in the (Continue Reading)
That old long arc OR short-term vs long-term memory
11/06/2015 Pat Barrett Add CommentI find it hilarious to hear heavy-jowled wise men explaining to us how the retreating colonial powers left a senseless patchwork of national borders that (Continue Reading)
A slice of Pat’s world view
08/24/2015 Pat Barrett Add CommentIt’s illustrative of his persona that Trump stated he would be phenomenal TO women, not FOR women, the usual preposition in that construction. I am (Continue Reading)
Clash of worldviews?
07/13/2015 Pat Barrett Add CommentA week late but I just showered and shaved (so hot here if you want to cool the water down you have to turn it (Continue Reading)
First sighting
06/28/2015 Pat Barrett Add CommentI saw my first Confederate flag protest shirt today: a young woman was wearing one with a furled Confederate flag with the slogan “It Shall (Continue Reading)
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06/27/2015 Pat Barrett Add CommentSome years ago a blonde American girl disappeared on Aruba. The news was so full of it that some people finally got sick of it (Continue Reading)
Economics
06/16/2015 Pat Barrett Add CommentEconomics is not something I have read a lot about but there seem to be some basics. I am putting this under the Pat’s World (Continue Reading)
What’s the Matter With ………….
05/09/2015 Pat Barrett Add CommentRecently Joan Walsh wrote a book titled What’s The Matter With White People? I take my blog entry title from that. Every time I mention (Continue Reading)
A bottle of wine, an insurance premium, and Thou….
03/11/2015 Pat Barrett Add CommentWhen conservatives question the need for caution in the way people talk to those who have to listen and here I’m thinking mainly of students (Continue Reading)
Expanded response to an flteach post
02/19/2015 Pat Barrett Add CommentI shouldn’t keep this going, but you keep pointing up essential issues. The racism we have to deal with is not a moral issue and (Continue Reading)