I’m just an ordinary plumber with two master’s degrees and a PhD. Sometimes people at church call me Dr. Barley, but how many doctors actually make house calls any more? Besides, I’m different from regular doctors because I guarantee my work.<\/p>\n
Politically I’m just a garden-variety right wing extremist. I voted for Peroutka, I listen to Air America radio, I read Southern Partisan<\/em> magazine and books like Rius’s Marxism for Beginners<\/em>, Weaver’s Ideas Have Consequences<\/em>, and Pinkwater’s The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death<\/em>. Pretty much what you’d expect from a Fundamentalist Christian banjo picker. <\/p>\n A friend has said that the unspoken theme of my blogging has been “What’s stupid about the world today?” That seems a little unkind. I’d rather like to think that we could call it “Opportunities for improvement” or something like that. But whatever its label, I’m a plumber and I know sewage when I see it, and I’m not afraid to point it out when it seems advisable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m just an ordinary plumber with two master’s degrees and a PhD. Sometimes people at church call me Dr. Barley, but how many doctors actually make house calls any more? Besides, I’m different from regular doctors because I guarantee my work. Politically I’m just a garden-variety right wing extremist. I voted for Peroutka, I listen … Continue reading “About the Blogger”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P45dxY-2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}