I don’t mean politically; I mean mentally. Here’s an example: most observers with more than 2 intact brain cells noticed in Trump’s quoting of a (Continue Reading)
Pat’s Polemics
On-going brilliance
M.O. More and more now I hear………..
02/22/2024 Pat Barrett Add CommentThat the U.S. became a democracy for the first time in 1965. What! you say. The breaking point is whether you can say any nation (Continue Reading)
What doesn’t matter in the U.S.
02/10/2024 Pat Barrett 2 CommentsAmendments to the Constitution that some people don’t like e.g. insurrectionists cannot serve in offices under the U.S. Definitions are important but what would we (Continue Reading)
Caste and cast
01/14/2024 Pat Barrett Add CommentAn unlikely movie: Caste, Isabel Wilkerson’s stupendous book on caste in America (and elsewhere), subtitled “The Source of Our Discontent.” How do you make a (Continue Reading)
What bugs you most about MAGA people?
01/10/2024 Pat Barrett 2 CommentsIs it possibly that they go on the internet, read whatever strikes their interest and supports their presuppositions and then think it’s true? In another (Continue Reading)
The key to culture is not language
01/07/2024 Pat Barrett Add CommentI just got an offer of tutoring a kid in Latin. It’s for pay and the kid lives just down the street so I’m sure (Continue Reading)
I’ve got my pride
12/05/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentMy wife tells me how the White folk driving through Phoenix and running out of gas and money would come to the Black churches for (Continue Reading)
Complete with veiled women
11/17/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentI am still hearing about those caravans headed toward the southern border of the U.S. (which I consider starting at the Mason-Dixon Line). So as (Continue Reading)
T-shirts for sale
10/02/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentWhere are the T-shirts demanding, “Free the Fulton County Nineteen!” ????
I’ve been tracking the one third……….
08/27/2023 Pat Barrett 1 Commentfor about a decade now. About one third of the country will believe the White House is staffed by aliens or lizard people and that (Continue Reading)
Typically of conservatives………
08/20/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentThe Americans for Prosperity group calling itself a movement provides contact only to donate, not explain why this has all the hallmarks of a wealthy (Continue Reading)
Even more on who/whom
08/20/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentInterestingly, I am finding that the Romance languages, too, often mixed up Latin cases in deriving their new paradigms. For instance, the dative and ablative (Continue Reading)
When is it an attack and when is it evidence?
08/20/2023 Pat Barrett 1 CommentIn a blog entry here on another topic, I came across this that I wrote: ” I’ve come to realize that ’attacking’ is another word (Continue Reading)
I hate it when I agree with conservatives.
08/17/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentMy friend works as a volunteer in a reception center for asylum seekers. The volunteers were just joined by professionals, referred to as staff. The (Continue Reading)
A shift in agreement – grammatical variety
08/11/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentChris Hayes said, “The will of the voters were heard.” This tendency to have the verb agree with the number of the last noun in (Continue Reading)
Trumpers are overawed
08/10/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentThe court dates for Trump’s indictment on charges leveled by Jack Smith fall around Christmas, thus providing opportunity to delay matters, which is the Trump (Continue Reading)
Color vs caste
08/02/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentWhen I was young, lots of people would say that the ‘racial problem’ would go away with interracial marriage. They seemed to think everyone would (Continue Reading)
Of the four counts against Trump……….
08/02/2023 Pat Barrett Add Comment“one count of conspiracy against rights refers to Trump and his co-conspirators alleged attempts to “oppress, threaten and intimidate” people in their right to vote (Continue Reading)
The MAGA defense of a killer
07/22/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentThe harrying of John Wilkes Booth by the government was a deep state operation. What did he do? We have to understand his frame of (Continue Reading)
Is this the key to good health?
07/14/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentYes. It may be exercise. As I near (really close) 82 and am in good health, I get indicators that not only am I doing (Continue Reading)
Rebels……….really?
07/12/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentNo one is going to protest a 50+ year high school reunion where to old and now replaced mascot was a Confederate soldier known as (Continue Reading)
SCOTUS has delivered on the Conservative Dream
06/30/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentMassive blows have been struck by SCOTUS to revert to control by White men over women and Blacks.
What Libertarians Believe = What Libertarians Don’t Know
06/28/2023 Pat Barrett Add CommentI am using ‘libertarian’ loosely, applying it to any economic political thinking that believes everyone thrives if everyone is on his own. Mitt Romney is (Continue Reading)