Comments on: The Hoover Institution – it’s about the parking

By: Joanne Jacobs

Joanne Jacobs — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:54:40 +0000

I’ve got coffee privileges at Hoover, though I haven’t dropped by for a long time. I’ll try to stop by tomorrow if I can to say howdy.

Chez TJ is overpriced. When we ate there, half the food came as “foam.” Try Nola’s in Palo Alto for Cajun food.

By: Gene

Gene — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:35:55 +0000

Roger, if at all possible, can you get an interview with Robert Conquest?

By: Minerva

Minerva — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:42:15 +0000

Glad you flew out of Burbank and away from the fires. Enjoy!

By: NukemHill

NukemHill — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:13:56 +0000

Fair is fair? Are you serious? What do you think the Dems have been doing for the last 50+ years but screwing things up!

I’m sorry, but an Obama presidency and the very real possibility of a filibuster-proof Democratic Senate majority is a recipe for disaster. Really and truly. This may very well be the end of the Republic as we know it. New Deal 2.0 is only the beginning.

I can only hope that a conservative-enough Supreme Court takes on the inevitable lawsuits against Obama’s power grabs, and slams hims fiercely.

God, to think I used to think so highly of FDR.

By: NukemHill

NukemHill — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:09:23 +0000

Oh, man. Stanford is my very favoritist campus in the whole fandangled Universe. I’m so jealous.

Enjoy the time there. And don’t get lost in the bookstore or libraries. Easier said than done!

By: Edan Naud

Edan Naud — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:22:47 +0000

Roger I agree with AlanC you must find your younger self embarrassing or every once in awhile your older self. Obama may not be your favorite pick but a party that believes in free speech zones (I thought the whole USA was a free speech zone) can not be your choice? Now Nancy and those others in Congress aren’t my choice either but fair is fair the Dems should get their chance to screw things up.

By: AlanC

AlanC — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:34:53 +0000

Roger,

Now, as you enter an illustrious maturity, that you are hob-nobbing with the creme de la creme of conservatism do you ever flash back to your early days and ask yourself “What the **** am I doing here?!!??”

Could you have ever, circa 1970s, pictured yourself at the Hoover?

Me? I’d be horn swoggled and mind boggled.

By: Roger L. Simon

Roger L. Simon — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:55:40 +0000

Thanks for the tips.

By: John Kelly

John Kelly — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:59:27 +0000

IN San Jose is Original Joe’s, recently remodeled but still the place that has been there since the 1930′s. It is one of the cousinhood of “Joe’s” in and around San Francisco. Part Musso & Franks, with a much stronger Italian American favor. The hamburgers are large, grilled over a charcoal fire and served in a hollowed out length of sour dough batard. The garlic bread is legendary and lethal, just butter and garlic grilled. Steaks, pastas, and Chicken Sec, a sautee that is worth the wait. Everything in San Jose has changed except Original Joe’s.

By: Gary Rosen

Gary Rosen — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:36:50 +0000

Welcome to NorCal, Roger! Most of these restaurants are actually in neighboring Mountain View, where I live and whence I type my various insights/rants including this one. Castro St., the main drag in Mountain View, is lined with numerous restaurants of varied ethnicities. Just off Castro is a superb (and expensive) French restaurant, Chez TJ, that just received a two-star rating from Michelin (the food guide, not the tire).