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Give Him a Gun Without Bullets

  06/28/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

The MAGA crowd likes to present themselves as tough and aggressive. They sport weapons. That means so much to them. So…..let’s give them guns, all (Continue Reading)

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Jose, can you see?

  06/23/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Someone assured me that all the game broadcasts in southern California have commentary mandated to be in Spanish. Better get out your Spanish for Dummies, (Continue Reading)

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Our very own Golem

  06/17/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

“They’re mine! Mine I say! Mine!”– Trump about his purloined boxes of classified government documents. All he needs now is “one box to bind them (Continue Reading)

Complete nonsense, Politics 2016/2022 running blog Corona Delta/Omicron & whatever's next-edition 2024

At the Jailhouse Door

  06/13/2023       Pat Barrett      1 Comment

As Trump is finally facing accountability under Jack Smith, we will want to project Trump’s “coverage” in our nation’s history textbooks. He will be reviled (Continue Reading)

Politics 2016/2022 running blog Corona Delta/Omicron & whatever's next-edition 2024

Denazification of America: the second failure

  05/17/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Shelby Foote, the Mississippian who wrote a very readable history of the Civil War, describes the reaction of Southerners to Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation on p (Continue Reading)

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With both hands……..

  05/04/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

An ad popped up: Relieve stiffness…. etc. Hey! I need stiffness and whatever I have I’m holding onto with both hands!

Complete nonsense

A silly plot come true

  04/29/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

A recent television series depicts a British Prime Minister who hires an international assassin to blow up a British ship so he can take credit (Continue Reading)

Politics 2016/2022 running blog Corona Delta/Omicron & whatever's next-edition 2024

One solution

  04/21/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Given the gradual turning of the U.S. population toward a non-White majority and its attendant racial strife, why not give free birth control devices to (Continue Reading)

Complete nonsense

Lost Cause Redux

  04/21/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

The Lost Cause is an affectionate term to refer to the “cause” of slavery. The Lost Cause was followed by The Fascist Terror State. The (Continue Reading)

Pat's World View, Politics 2016/2022 running blog Corona Delta/Omicron & whatever's next-edition 2024

Lest we forget……….

  04/15/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

We may find a figure rising above the turmoil of history to legendary status. All well and good as long as we see that figure (Continue Reading)

Pat's World View

T Rex or T Redux?

  04/09/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

The word often is often pronounced with a t. The below citation from Dictionary.com explains:“HOW TO PRONOUNCE OFTENOften was pronounced with a t -sound until (Continue Reading)

scolds and guardians, Word of the Day

Uncle Joe Stalin, Mary Trump’s Uncle Donald, your Uncle Harry

  03/31/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Uncles have a bad reputation. They are blowhards. Their claims ring from the roof tops. Whether car stereos or nuclear medicine, they know all about (Continue Reading)

Basics

Imitation is the best form of acquisition

  03/12/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Have you ever noticed that when people are horsing around imitating an accent: Italain, Swedish, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Chinese – you’re heard it many times (Continue Reading)

Foreign language teaching & learning

What to call it?

  02/20/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Most grammatical features are named by linguists so as to convey their function, e.g. conditional, inceptive, conative, concomitive, etc. The coinages are mostly based on (Continue Reading)

Linguistics

Know your preferred learning channel

  02/19/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I read a lot. When I want to learn a language, I read it. That works OK for me normally, but with Korean I am (Continue Reading)

Foreign language teaching & learning

Perfect example of the complexity of French grammar

  02/15/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Examining French grammar in light of my teaching my granddaughter French, I learned just how much the expression ‘one Xs’ dominates the verb paradigm. “on (Continue Reading)

Foreign language teaching & learning, grammar & language change

Left or Right?

  02/15/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

No, not my politics; we know where they lie. It’s handedness. I’ve always known my handedness as “mixed dominance,” doing some things only with the (Continue Reading)

Health and exercise, Uncategorized

Going way out on a limb……….

  02/02/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

In a cave far up in the snowy reaches of the Himalayas I encountered a master who provided me with esoteric knowledge required for good (Continue Reading)

Health and exercise

One of my mistakes in attribution….. to a language

  01/17/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Very popular in my grandmother’s household was Lawrence Welk. Corny or cheesy do not begin to describe him. Popular throughout a certain set does. He (Continue Reading)

Mistakes I made and still make.... apparently

Who designed the Viet Nam War Memorial?

  01/01/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

When Maya Lin was announced as the winning designer of the projected Viet Nam War Memorial, I am sure I read or heard that she (Continue Reading)

Mistakes Made

Weight gain and a new diet

  12/30/2022       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Yesterday, Dec. 29, 2022, I got the basis of my new diet started, heavy on meat and vegetables and fruit and nuts, light on cheeses (Continue Reading)

Health and exercise

An old, old story……..

  12/27/2022       Pat Barrett      1 Comment

A couple looking for a place to stay in cold weather in a strange city on Dec. 24……….. we see it portrayed everywhere. The governor (Continue Reading)

Complete nonsense

Nyah II VR E 34 Oct. 16 2018 lesson 54

  12/10/2022       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Moi, j’ai un mot nouveau. Les sciences  en francais on dit l’informatique (computer science). Moi j’ai appris ce mot d’un ami. (here I guessed totally (Continue Reading)

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