{"id":6503,"date":"2011-06-22T08:39:56","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T15:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=6503"},"modified":"2011-06-22T08:39:56","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T15:39:56","slug":"wednesdays-are-clarification-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=6503","title":{"rendered":"Wednesdays Are Clarification Days"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pima Air & Space Museum, Tucson, Arizona<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Heading out to the air museum<\/a> in an hour or so.\u00a0 I’m scheduled to lead two tours this morning, finishing up around lunch time.\u00a0 Most of yesterday was spent boning up on the history of the aircraft I’ll be talking about today, adding a few tidbits to my mental script … should I remember to include them, which is always the trick, isn’t it?\u00a0 The big news is my new laser pointer, which I’ll ops test on today’s group of visitors.\u00a0 It’s green, and so very cool.<\/p>\n

I’ll reward myself on the way home by stopping for takeout at a local deli … it’s supposed to get up to 110\u00b0F, and there’s nothing better after a hot morning in the air museum’s hangars than a large lemon Eegee<\/a> (you’re welcome, Ed).<\/p>\n

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A quick visit to the clarification department:<\/p>\n

The other day I wrote about the military’s astonishing liberalism<\/a>, citing a New York Times editorial by Nicholas Kristof<\/a>.\u00a0 As was Kristof, I was guilty of giving only one side of the story.\u00a0 The military’s internal socialism works because everyone in the military works … there are no “free riders” sponging off the system … and it is guided by the heavy paternalistic hand of the military leaderships’ conservative personal and communitarian values.<\/p>\n

If you’re interested in seeing the full picture, I recommend an excellent article by noted military editorialist and author Thomas E. Ricks, The Great Society in Camouflage<\/a>.\u00a0 You want the freebies, soldier, you have to work for them!<\/p>\n

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That is all for this morning.\u00a0 It’s time to go talk planes.<\/p>\n

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Outdoor displays: fighter row & the newly-acquired B-36<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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