Pat’s Polemics

On-going brilliance

Search

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)

View from under the Bus
If you’d like an e-mail notice of each new post, subscribe here:
Loading

Recent Posts

  • The Price of War
  • Unlikely Heroes for a life-long liberal Democrat (think FDR)
  • This from a cartoonist, Oliver Markus Malloy
  • New Way To Categorize Conservatives
  • Maybe someone could correct me on this………

Recent Comments

  • Pat Barrett on What doesn’t matter in the U.S.
  • 伟思礼 on What doesn’t matter in the U.S.
  • Pat Barrett on What bugs you most about MAGA people?
  • 伟思礼 on When is it an attack and when is it evidence?
  • 伟思礼 on What bugs you most about MAGA people?

Categories

Archives

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org

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)

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

Speculation on leaked draft opinion re Roe

  05/13/2022       Pat Barrett      6 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)

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

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)

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

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)

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

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)

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

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)

Politics

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)

Pat's World View

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)

Pat's World View

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)

Pat's World View

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)

Politics 2016/2022 running blog Corona Delta/Omicron & whatever's next-edition 2024, View from under the Bus

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)

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

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)

View from under the Bus

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)

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

Two against two: ad hominem

  12/09/2021       Pat Barrett      2 Comments

This morning I was standing in line waiting for a blood test. Four of us got to chatting. About the time the doors opened, the (Continue Reading)

Anecdotes

Idiomaticity

  12/08/2021       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

“I understand what you mean but we don’t say it that way.” How many times have you heard someone tell you that as you foundered (Continue Reading)

Linguistics

No Serious Consequences

  12/05/2021       Pat Barrett      2 Comments

Isabel Wilkerson so deftly put into frame and focus the experience of Black Americans, I wondered as I read what the obverse of that coin (Continue Reading)

Pat's World View

The Statue Problem

  12/04/2021       Pat Barrett      3 Comments

The statues some people find objectionable are typically those of men who exploited and extracted, at least in the Americas. We usually don’t get excited (Continue Reading)

Ramble

New Core Exercises

  12/02/2021       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

A friend sent me a video by Bob and Brad. On the side I saw one titled 10 exercises you should not do. Two of (Continue Reading)

Health and exercise

Carried along in the rhythm of the music

  11/20/2021       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Sitting here listening to a series of performances of Agbadza, the ever popular Ewe dance music, I realized the nature of that pulse, what many (Continue Reading)

Music of the African Diaspora
  • Previous
  • 1
  • …
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • …
  • 102
  • Next
Theme By: Benajmin Lu
Powered By: WordPress