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What’s Up With Senator Barrios?

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In Sen Jarret Barrios’s Blog he begins by saying “gentle readers”.

What the hell does that mean?

That, coupled with his now preaching. Yes, he was advertised on BMG as preaching at a church in Chelsea.

Is Senator Barrios a reverend? Is he going to theology school?  Who is he to “Preach”?

Any thoughts?
 

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    • Bonus Question:

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      Was Jane Austin’s Pride and Prejudice a celebration of love or its indictment?

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      Please discuss.

      • Jane G. Austin was an American fiction writer active in the 1860’s and 1870’s.  She wrote Pride and Pride, but not Pride and Prejudice.  There is also the Texas novelist “Calamity” Jane Austin.

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        Google has gotten much more aggressive with its spell-checking.  You used to get Calamity Jane on the first page of hits for “Jane Austin”, but now both the real Jane G. and the fictional Calamity Jane only come up on the fourth page after three pages of hits for Jane Austen.

        • What a nit-picker you are!

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          Answer EB3’s bonus question – is it an indictment or celbration of love?

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          (I was always suspicious that Elizabeth Bennett only fell for Mr. Darcy AFTER seeing how extensive his mansion at Pemberley was, and listening to his servants priase him for his generosity.  And, the only two people in the story to fall effortlessly in love are the two best tempered and somewhat simpleminded – Jane and Mr. Bingley).

            • I really do make an effort to curb discursiveness in my posting, but…

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              I’ve never heard of Labors of the Heart, but I’ll throw in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston as the best love story I’ve ever read. Great climax, but Hurston’s dialogue is fantastic and her prose simply nails mood and place with succinct, yet elucide vividness.  It deserves it’s spot among American canonical masterpieces.

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              Great novel, I mean, if you like that sort of thing. 

          • Answer EB3’s bonus question – is it an indictment or celbration of love?

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            Pride & Prejudice is an indictment of the British social system, which left women in the lurch if they did not marry well.

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            That little bit of history was not made known to me in my Advanced Placement English class in high school in 1966-67, which is why I found the book so boring.  The fact is that the mother wanted to marry off her female children in order of birth to enhance the likelihood that all of them would “marry well.”  That (marrying well) was the point of the book.

  2. Mr. Barrios is a poser, pure and simple.  He is an empty suit, a cipher in search of a cause.  All fluff and no substance. 

  4. …I would suggest that Barrios is merely being courteous.

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    Instead of “ladies and gentlemen” he chose to use “gentle reader” as a greeting.

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    Get over it.

  5. Hit the nail on the head.

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    Barrios is nothing more than an authoritarian windbag with delusions of grandeur. Like most politicians, he sees himself as more master than servant. The Commonwealth would be better served without his ilk.

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    Empty suit indeed.

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