Category Archives: News & Politics
Thanks for Thinking Differently: In Memory of Steve Jobs
Written on October 5, 2011 at 6:07 pm, by cct
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”
– Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Speech 2005
California: The Earthquake Diva
Written on August 23, 2011 at 5:43 pm, by cct
I posted this on Twitter today –
East Coast and Colorado?! I really hope California doesn’t decide to go all diva today too.
Antoine RJ Wright wrote back to me:
@intellichick according to earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/re… – no one can touch Cali Diva-ness
The link featured a view similar to the one below —
I think those dots are the West Coast’s collective giggle of Earthquake Diva-ness. 
In the end though, somehow I think the East Coast will get the last laugh.
-cct
Video: Sixth Graders Explain How the Debt Deal Went Down
Written on August 3, 2011 at 3:40 pm, by cct
Things I Wish We Were Doing Instead of Cheering “USA! USA!”
Written on May 2, 2011 at 10:24 am, by cct
Reacting to this piece – “USA! USA!” is the wrong response – in Salon.com. How about we take all that energy and put it to good American use?
- Help out relief efforts in the South. Osama’s passing did not stop tornados and floods.
- Continue the dialogue of healing and working toward a better future. Violence is a vicious cycle and let’s get out of it.
- Speaking of violence, aside from the things happening in the Middle East – there’s crazy stuff happening just south of our border in Mexico. It is affecting our people, has affected our people, and we’re part of the problem.
Veterans Among Us
Written on November 11, 2010 at 8:30 am, by cct
Honor Flight Guardian at the USMC (Iwo Jima) Memorial
As Ed read out the names of Veterans at Sunday service, he left out the rank but affixed to each name a branch of service and the war in which each had served. With every name that echoed within the grey concrete walls of the gothic-style cathedral of the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, a Veteran was supposed to stand to be recognized. Not all names had a Veteran present, but enough were there that America’s legacy of twentieth-century wars came to life:
World War II…
Korea…