Comments on: Postcard.

By: moe99

moe99 — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:58:47 +0000

Jeff, Kentucky has long been home to those making moonshine and growing pot. In fact, one of the finest in that regard was a graduate of my law school class: former paratrooper, narcotics police officer in Lexington and finally big cocaine runner:

http://moesmisadventures.blogspot.com/2004/11/prequel-this-heres-south.html

We might as well give it up, legalize, and tax the hell out of marijuana. We need the revenue for sure.

By: MichaelG

MichaelG — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:28:33 +0000

Telegraph has always been a little edgy. Our building is on the other side of the campus at Shattuck and Hearst, an old eight story bldg.

By: Sue

Sue — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:05:17 +0000

I was in Chicago a couple of years back and noticed several along Michigan Avenue. All polite and unobtrusive. The only one I responded to had a dog with him. We had a nice conversation and I gave him $5. It was the dog that did it, of course.

By: Julie Robinson

Julie Robinson — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:46:15 +0000

Here in south Florida there are panhandlers standing in almost every intersection. Typically they hold a crude sign that says they are homeless, or vets, or lost their job, and often they say God bless. I’ve yet to see anyone give to anyone and I’m horrified by the safety dangers, much less slowing of traffic. My sister says that for many this is their full time job.

By: nancy

nancy — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:35:10 +0000

Michael, I was in Berkeley, too. We should have had dinner. It was a spur-of-the-moment late-afternoon trip via BART. All we did was walk around campus and up and down Telegraph. Berkeley’s homeless problem is nearly as bad as SF’s, only the homeless don’t consider themselves to be a problem. It’s a lifestyle choice!

By: Jeff (the mild-mannered one)

Jeff (the mild-mannered one) — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:04:01 +0000

Read the latest Harper’s article on the Daniel Boone Forest about the challenges of being a Forest Service employee in eastern Kentucky, where the public lands are widely known to be the ideal location to plant your cannabis seedlings, since tracing the full grown plants back to you is pretty hard. The author does an amazing job of communicating to the average reader how dangerous and challenging this work is (law enforcement rangers in the National Park Service are our point of contact with this world, but it all sounds identical), and clearly spent major time right alongside them. All concerned have major qualms about the war on drugs and a) who we’re at war with and b) who’s winning (answers - a) ourselves, and b) they are, whoever they are, which is probably us anyhow).

In Ohio, this all applies to the Wayne National Forest, as in WV the Monongahela — but the back edges of a Scout camp would work just as well. Someone else’s wide ranging, rarely visited property, where your cultivation is unlikely to be spotted, poached, or surveilled, giving you a chance to bring in your merry harvest and dry and bag and sell your stupid product.

By: MichaelG

MichaelG — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:55:59 +0000

I was in the Bay Area yesterday as well. I was in Berkeley. I could see the GG Bridge but it was too far away to see who was riding bikes on it. There is a big old public health lab in Berkeley. It has been replaced by a new facility in Richmond (which claims to be the largest public health lab in the country and is, indeed, huge) and will be razed. I have to survey it to see that there is no residual radioactive shit and to abate whatever is found and get the radioactive materials license surrendered. I had a job site meeting last week attended by no less than five PhD physicists. Talk about trees obscuring forests. Interesting project. Incidentally, there were never any isotopes of any harmful nature employed in this building. All very low level stuff, lower than one would see in an average hospital. The labs up the hill or out at Livermore are a different story.

By: brian stouder

brian stouder — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:38:01 +0000

Alex - that’s the camp where Shelby is! The Camp Director says that none of her staff were involved, and we believe her, since the police have already arrested a bunch of people

By: Dexter

Dexter — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:46:26 +0000

Jezuss, brian! Kick me inna ass and call me Rumpelstiltskin!
Lincoln National Bank was my bank for years, my first car loan, my dad’s bank for decades before me…if I knew it was gone I had forgotten it. And the tower is my fave building in the country, tied with the AT&T Building in downtown Cleveland (which is the blueprint for Perry White’s “Daily Planet-Superman Building”., and then there’s the Empire State Building.

By: James Moehrke

James Moehrke — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:54:35 +0000

Hey! I was in S.F. today, too! My son is playing in the 80th San Francisco Junior Golf Tournament (we could see the G.G. Bridge from the 17th hole), and posted the opening day low round. He’ll get his name on the big trophy and his own momento. He’s so excited, but now has to go back and beat 3 other players to be the big winner. Now, if he can only sleep tonight…