We live in a time of electronic revolutions.
Times where a research report doesn’t require a trip to
the library
The height of telecommunications around the world
(Which happens to be surrounded by satellites)
We email a memo to the guy sitting two cubicles down because
we are to lazy to get up and tell him.
If Myspace goes down for two hours, half the world is in a
panic.
People don’t recognize art unless it is measured in
pixels.
Yes ladies and gentlemen, we live in The New Millennia.

We live in a time of worry. 
Rare is the day that a new missing person isn’t reported
in the news. 
We hear about gang fighting and bomb threats.
There are even more we don’t hear about. 
We live in times where a woman can’t even put a birth
announcement in the paper or rent a stork cutout for the
yard without remembering the infant who was stolen from her
home.
And bringing a child to the dentist is something that should
be with extreme caution, particularly if using intravenous
anesthetics. 

We live in a time of violence.
Where a woman is killed and her baby is cut from her womb,
her other three children are left dead in a dryer.
A school yard shooting.
Then within a week, like the class room copy cat, two more
follow. 
Five girls killed in an Amish one room school house.  
A well loved principal killed by a fifteen year old student.

A girl taken hostage and fatally wounded from a gun shot as
she tried to run.
The shooter almost always turns the gun on themselves.


We live in a time of sheer idiocity.
Where a congressman accused of sending inappropriate emails
to teenage pages, has to then become an alcoholic to cover
it up.
We live in a world where no single embryo may die.
But everyday in war, soldiers loose and take lives.
Lives that will be mourned. 
Lives that will be missed. 
Where the president goes against the decision of the UN.
(Yee Haw for cowboy diplomacy!)
Where a war’s purpose is changed time and time again to
combat public dissent.

We live in these times.
Times of electronics, and worries, and violence, and
idiocity.
Yes Ladies and Gentlemen
This is the New Millennia.