Some rambling musings<\/i><\/p>\n
by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n
I was watching the Space Shuttle take off this morning after wading through stories of dubious importance. Sure, the fact that Martin Garrick got busted for DUI<\/a>, flagrantly breaking more laws than Anthony Wiener, was interesting. I mean sexting kills thousands of people every year. Oh, right, that would be drunk driving that kills over 10,000 people in the United States every year. (and 950 in California in 2009<\/a>)<\/p>\n But, the space shuttle really got me musing about what the California Dream once was. I’m not old enough to have experienced the feeling of promise that California embodied during the post-war boom, but I have read a book or two on the subject. The world was once our oyster, and we were united on the idea of pushing the boundaries of science. But united was the key word there. We realized that it would take more than a year or two, and it would take the combination of resources from a variety of entities. And we understood the power of education to build a better future for the state.<\/p>\n I’ll not just wax nostalgic about the Master Plan for higher education. It has been eulogized already in these digital pages. Pat Brown is gone, and the son wasn’t the father in the 1970s, and he still is not in the new century. <\/p>\n I’m not entirely sure where I’m going with this, other than to comment on the depressing nature of a state, and a nation really, that can no longer agree on what made us great. California is still the heart of America’s innovation, and we can continue to remain so. We shouldn’t forget that we still have an embarrassment of riches to bring to bear on any task. <\/p>\n Now, I think I’ll go back to monitoring the brewing struggle between two California companies, Google and Facebook, for my social networking loyalty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some rambling musings<\/i><\/p>\n by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n I was watching the Space Shuttle take off this morning after wading through stories of dubious importance. Sure, the fact that Martin Garrick got busted for DUI<\/a>, flagrantly breaking more laws than Anthony Wiener, was interesting. I mean sexting kills thousands of people every year. Oh, right, that would be drunk driving that kills over 10,000 people in the United States every year. (and 950 in California in 2009<\/a>)<\/p>\n But, the space shuttle really got me musing about what the California Dream once was. I’m not old enough to have experienced the feeling of promise that California embodied during the post-war boom, but I have read a book or two on the subject. The world was once our oyster, and we were united on the idea of pushing the boundaries of science. But united was the key word there. We realized that it would take more than a year or two, and it would take the combination of resources from a variety of entities. And we understood the power of education to build a better future for the state.<\/p>\n I’ll not just wax nostalgic about the Master Plan for higher education. It has been eulogized already in these digital pages. Pat Brown is gone, and the son wasn’t the father in the 1970s, and he still is not in the new century. <\/p>\n I’m not entirely sure where I’m going with this, other than to comment on the depressing nature of a state, and a nation really, that can no longer agree on what made us great. California is still the heart of America’s innovation, and we can continue to remain so. We shouldn’t forget that we still have an embarrassment of riches to bring to bear on any task. <\/p>\n Now, I think I’ll go back to monitoring the brewing struggle between two California companies, Google and Facebook, for my social networking loyalty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3yr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}