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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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Guess what, Clarence.

  06/25/2022       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Breaking news from SCOTUS: As Clarence Thomas was compiling his list of targets for the next session, all dealing with marriage and sexual behavior, Roberts (Continue Reading)

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Re Roe: a couple of things…….

  06/25/2022       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Go to geography or historico-geographic patterns as I suggest we start with in the Magnum Opus: Trigger states: all southern except South Dakota.About to trigger (Continue Reading)

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The Hearings

  06/10/2022       Pat Barrett      2 Comments

Take aways: Videographer testified Proud Boys left the Ellipsis before Trump even arrived, clearly to reconnoiter the Capitol, depending on Trump to send the crowd (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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Gohmert unleashed

  06/03/2022       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Finally, we see the true face of the far right. Louie Gohmert tapped into his inner Jim Jordan on TV yesterday, 6-2-22, and spewed his (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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One commentator’s take on our political situation

  05/13/2022       Pat Barrett      1 Comment

Lawrence O’Donnell of MSNBC’s The Last Word began his show May 10th saying the world does not understand us, the U.S. Looking at the SCOTUS (Continue Reading)

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Speculation on leaked draft opinion re Roe

  05/13/2022       Pat Barrett      5 Comments

Pre-decision:The purpose of the release may have been to:elicit massive protests eliciting ‘adjustments’ in the opinion.force wavers, Roberts, Barrett, Kavanaugh, to firm up so as (Continue Reading)

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I find conservatism egregiously wrong

  05/08/2022       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I find conservatism egregiously wrong from the start (unless you like living in a cave)………..and its reasoning exceptionally weak (no change unless it benefits me) (Continue Reading)

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All Snakes Have a Backbone

  04/25/2022       Pat Barrett      3 Comments

Our Arizona Representative, Ruben Gallego, thought through Mike Pence’s refusal to get into the car to whisk him away from danger and realize it was (Continue Reading)

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What is a statesman?

  04/22/2022       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

We have a contrast. When it became clear that Nixon had to go, it was Republicans, including, most famously, Barry Goldwater, who went to him (Continue Reading)

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Have You Ever Noticed….. (warning: sex)

  04/18/2022       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Have you ever noticed that the big issues in the GOP have to do in some way, no matter how great a stretch, with sex? (Continue Reading)

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The Moment I Knew I Had Lost My Country

  04/17/2022       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

For a lot of people, the election of Obama caused them to ejaculate, “I want my country back!” Eight years later, another president was elected (Continue Reading)

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A Brief Sketch of African Music

  04/03/2022       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

African music as found in the western half of the continent has an overall shape despite major distinctions from north to south. This music came (Continue Reading)

Music of the African Diaspora

Personal responsibility versus social responsibility

  03/12/2022       Pat Barrett      2 Comments

Kurt Andersen has made clear the course of thinking in this country derived from Milton Friedman: nothing matters more that making money except making more (Continue Reading)

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Who is the true egalitarian

  03/04/2022       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

When a conservative savages a poor person, a person of putative lower status, or anyone at a disadvantage, we liberals rush to their defense. But (Continue Reading)

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race discrimination vs caste discrimination

  02/19/2022       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

My wife watches a lot of English soap opera and mysteries. Most of them have a character, principal or marginal, who is Black. Over time, (Continue Reading)

African Diaspora

The Reshaping of a Musical Culture

  01/29/2022       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Joseph Holloway writes in Africanisms in American Culture that the slaves brought with them their musical culture. That resulted in them reshaping the European American (Continue Reading)

Music of the African Diaspora

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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Reason in, Reason out

  01/05/2022       Pat Barrett      3 Comments

Michael Steele, former RNC chair, said a friend asked him a good question concerning the Trump/Insurrection supporters: how do you reason someone out of a (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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What I Am Most Proud Of

  12/10/2021       Pat Barrett      6 Comments

In his Atlantic article, “Are We Doomed?” George Packer has two lines that went to something I’ve been saying ever since the rise of Trump. (Continue Reading)

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