re: #289 avanti

BTW, my father was a Greek Orthodox, I’m agnostic, and my son is a atheist, so I’m missing the whole association point of your argument even if it was true.

Ahh, but did you (allegedly) write a memoir citing your father’s faith as a motivating factor in your own development? Barry did:

littlegreenfootballs.com

Charles covered that for you, rather decent of him. Here’s the other one, fleshed out in greater detail:

prestopundit.wordpress.com

Now, you can claim something isn’t there, but it is; the fellow’s father was, minimally, a socialist, certainly in favor of some rather radical interventions in the free market, using weapons if needed, and Barry claimed great inspiration from these beliefs. Draw your own conclusions, of course; maybe Barry just liked that his father was a sharp dresser, and that’s the influence he was speaking about.