{"id":6437,"date":"2011-06-16T19:24:30","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T02:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=6437"},"modified":"2011-07-06T08:30:19","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T15:30:19","slug":"astonishingly-liberal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=6437","title":{"rendered":"Astonishingly Liberal"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Well, that’s done. Your humble correspondent is the newest certified walking tour docent at the Pima Air & Space Museum<\/a>. My certification tour yesterday went pretty well, except for the part where I blanked on who won the toss for first flight, Orville or Wilbur, but I\u00a0 finessed it by simply saying “they took turns” and trying to look like I knew what I was talking about.<\/p>\n

I am now duly blessed … cleared solo as we say in the biz … and for the rest of the summer, Wednesday mornings are mine, all mine!\u00a0 Er, why do I suddenly feel like one of the kids Tom Sawyer talked into whitewashing that fence?<\/p>\n

Of course all my colleagues at the museum are knowledgeable and entertaining, but if you’re in Tucson and planning to visit the museum, I hope you do it on a Wednesday.\u00a0 I’d love to show you around.\u00a0 I love what I’m doing … and god knows I need the practice!<\/p>\n

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What else is new?\u00a0 I mentioned our ongoing recliner hunt on Facebook and said that we want one that looks like a chair, not some blobby trailer-park fat man beanbag.\u00a0 Advice ensued.\u00a0 We should buy a Barcalounger.\u00a0 A La-Z-Boy.\u00a0 It should be leather.\u00a0 No, fabric.\u00a0 All good give and take, until one of my beloved siblings suggested that what I really need is an Easy-Lift chair.\u00a0 Jesus, am I that decrepit?\u00a0 That’s it, sister … you’re out of my will!<\/p>\n

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I’ve mentioned before how the military, from the outside a formidably conservative institution, is on the inside not only liberal but downright socialist.\u00a0 I was glad to see a Nicholas Kristof editorial<\/a> about this in yesterday’s New York Times.\u00a0 I’ll summarize some main points in case you can’t follow the link:<\/p>\n