J. Lawrence Hinds's Blog

LarryH Commented on Nouveaux Obliges by Donal

2009-09-16T17:13:12Z

Not much of a choice here really. It is autonomy that is the great self-delusion. We don’t have to vaccinate illegal aliens because their flu is different from our flu. Oh no it is not and oh yes we do.

LarryH Commented on Crazy Crap War by ~flowerchild~

2009-09-16T16:45:42Z

Thanks for the link. What a fascinating back story. So the mother of the President of the United States was a truly modern woman. Why couldn’t she be our President? Maybe in 2209.

LarryH recommended Crazy Crap War by ~flowerchild~

2009-09-16T15:13:46Z

LarryH Commented on The Lesson of Piltown Man by LarryH

2009-09-16T03:25:48Z

I was sitting up on Mt. Tam drinking wine the afternoon that Sutro Baths burned down, a Sunday I think. It was a clear day and it sent a plume of smoke almost as high as where we were lounging. We knew instantly what was burning. It had closed by then and was scheduled for demolition so I always thought it was arson since it was sitting on cliffs and the demolition job would have been a bear.

I remember all the tawdry exhibits you recall too. The nickelodeons were pretty special. You are right about it being a real loss of history, like the Fox theater on Market St.

LarryH Commented on The Lesson of Piltown Man by LarryH

2009-09-16T03:17:36Z

The banks are insolvent. Of that I am certain. So there is a problem. I think Whitney's case is that it is solvable without the apocalyptic response but Bernanke et al used it instead to save their interests (Goldman Sacks and its accomplices) and let the collapse fall on others. My point is it is beyond me to know any more and prudence suggests I focus my efforts on what is salvageable which regrettably does not seem to be much.

LarryH Commented on The Lesson of Piltown Man by LarryH

2009-09-15T23:51:12Z

Remember Lis that thanks to Q I have a prodigious excess of celery. In fact my small apartment full of the stuff. It's hard to sleep on. So if you need a little more fibre in your diet, I'm your man.

LarryH Commented on The Lesson of Piltown Man by LarryH

2009-09-15T23:37:39Z

Poor Ida has bigger problems than that:

No disributor for Charles Darwin movie.

LarryH recommended STATUS AND PRESTIGE by dickday

2009-09-15T20:20:34Z

LarryH Commented on The Fall by LisB

2009-09-15T11:43:02Z

A chronicle for our times. It would be a real contribution to the café if someone with your writing skills might maintain this kind of narrative. It would be humanizing as well as serve as a foil for the reflections of others here. Studs Terkel would approve.

Most of us here are more sensitive and humane than our neighbors deserve. We don’t much like to look at life as numbers - 12% unemployment, 4621 dead, 700 billion dollars – we feel it diminishes us. It isn’t that we prefer a melancholy poesy. We find it as unhealthy as eating too much junk food thinking of life and its moments as categories, like some mass produced products sitting on a factory loading dock – a gross of disappointment here, cases if 10 paks of same old-same old there. Life has value on the individual level; the rest is a phantasm of the mind. One apple plus one apple is not two apples. It is an apple and a different apple.

I too have had a few of those first Monday mornings. It is a lot like breaking up as a couple. You don’t quite fit in as before because everyone is used to you as “a couple.” You can’t quite do many things as before because there is one now instead of two. Decisions are immediate and do not wait upon some consensus but rather than making decisions easier it makes them harder. You almost wish you could have the bad stuff back – the stuff that made you separate. Oh but no. That’s crazy. But then what isn’t crazy right now? “The Fall” indeed. Was Lucifer right? Is it “better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven” or was he just putting on a brave front?

Of course it is the season of growth. It doesn’t come with a certain position of the earth with respect to the sun like Spring. This season is personal, part of one’s personal orrery. Like astronomers from another solar system, each of us watches you from afar in the hopes of learning something about our own world. So please do continue this narrative.

And of course we love you.

LarryH recommended The Fall by LisB

2009-09-15T07:11:56Z

LarryH Commented on The System by LisB

2009-09-14T23:26:57Z

I think you are right in this, especially that is is more a matter of style than substance. As a political strategist he is more Eisenhower than Patton.

LarryH recommended 34 million people attended a BBQ at my house on 9/12 by William K. Wolfrum

2009-09-14T18:58:19Z

LarryH Commented on The System by LisB

2009-09-14T07:45:16Z

Who told you about the poppies in the backyard? I tell the neighbors it is Canadian cotton and they don't ask any more questions. Now you bring it up here in front of the guests. Besides I am still perfecting the smack and coffee thing which I plan to pitch to Starbucks when their third quarter numbers come in. I'm calling it the Grande Chai Speedball Latte.

LarryH recommended Rose colored glasses by cmaukonen

2009-09-13T21:22:51Z

LarryH Commented on The System by LisB

2009-09-14T02:22:27Z

This is all very interesting but I’m stuck with a truck load of celery and all you can do is go all Arnold Toynbee on me. Now I’ve spent all my money, cannot make the rent, and they probably won’t give me food stamps if I tell them about all the god damn celery I have. I feel like a vegan Job. I can tell you one thing though. I may have more celery than any man on earth but even I can’t make a Right Wing blogger think.

LarryH Commented on Political Seismic Swarms in Honduras by neoboho

2009-09-13T19:41:35Z

Thanks.