Manns Medium

During the “Clinton Years”, people still pine those times when life was good, jobs were plentiful and the internet was the next great thing.  Dot com companies were sprouting up all over and millions of dollars were being made from them being bought and sold.  Silicon Valley became the new New York and the mecca for young, talented eggheads who spent far too much time sitting in front of a computer than they did in front of real people.  The internet was the place to be if you wanted to make your fortune and you could find anything and everything that you’re little heart desired. Well now, only few things have changed.  You can still find almost anything on the internet and more people are now parked in front of their computers instead of parked at the dinner table.  Technology has replaced face to face contact and relationships for human beings can now be judged by the number of hits on any particular dating site.  Silicon Valley is seldom used in an ...

America making history at a time when so much else is going on that media’s efforts to cover it falls on deaf ears and bloodshot eyes.   This day is important because it will now provide our children with a point of reference and a better look at parts of the universe once thought to be completely off limits to the capabilities of man. An Associated Press article titled NASA spacecraft now circling Mercury — a first tells us that “ NASA's spacecraft called Messenger successfully veered into a pinpoint orbit Thursday night after a 6 1/2-year trip and 4.9 billion miles and tricky maneuvering to fend off the gravitational pull of the sun.”   The best part of this entire article is expressed by Messenger’s chief engineer, Eric Finnegan when he said “"It was right on the money." Messenger is in orbit that brings it as close as 120 miles above the planet's surface. "This is as close you can possibly get to being perfect."   "Everybody was whooping and holle...