Michael’s Two Cents

I was on the phone with a co-worker in LA and they just got hit with a big earth quake. She’s in Santa Monica… I’ll post an update as soon as I hear news. Crazy huh?
I’m watching my IM… if she gets back to her desk she’ll IM and call me back so we can [...]

How’s life? No really… how’s life? Job sucks? Blog getting no traffic? No time for the things and people you love? Sorry to hear that. Hey… do you have about an hour to watch a video?
Have you read these two books? No? Watch this video and then go to Amazon and order these [...]

I was surfing looking for a tiny house to blog on and ran into this blue man video on the Personally Green website.

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“America must commit to producing 100% of our electricity from cheap, clean renewable energy sources like solar and wind within 10 years.” - Al Gore
Remember this isn’t just government and corporations taking action… this is every one of us kicking our oil addiction. It won’t be easy but 10 years is doable if we each [...]

Actually I think they are partially right… the problems with the economy ARE a result of what is in some people’s heads.

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Good news, the skies in California are clearing again. I’m sure there are a few fires left burning but as you can see the Sacramento skies are turning blue again.

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For the past couple weeks California has been under a cloud of smoke, literally. Here in the Sacramento area we’ve been more of less choking on it and the fires are relatively far away. The photo above is looking over my house toward the sunset. Normally you’d expect the sun to be orange or red [...]

Yesterday Pelosi mentioned in an interview with CBS that hearings may be held to impeach Bush and Cheney. This is a bit of a surprising change or tune. Here’s what Pelosi said:
“This is a Judiciary Committee matter, and I believe we will see some attention being paid to it by the Judiciary Committee… Not necessarily [...]

Watch this video from TED. Do you know TED? TED is an annual conference where the most amazing thinkers in the world get together and talk about issues and solutions. They share ideas. Now all of us can see what they’re talking about through short videos.
It’s a video of Clay Shirky (in 2005) explaining how [...]

I’m not sure why it still amazes me that the strongest only help the weaker when it’s profitable. For example… if our country wasn’t spread so thin militarily and locked in so closely with the oil barrons and sheiks we could probably actually do something like stop the chaos and devastation in little places like [...]