Internet Meandering

I tend to wander about, mentally. That didn't sound right, did it? Maybe I mean intellectually rather than mentally. That is, I catch something in the news feeds I peruse, Google it, and then get sucked into that Google vortex one of my readers mentioned in a comment on Bubbling Ideas and end up reading things that maybe I never should.

Like this one: Gender: Optional.

Excerpt:
Joseph Romero, a 6 year-old Arizona boy, was diagnosed as transgender last October and is beginning his/her transition to becoming a female. When he/she reaches the age of 12, he will be given female hormones containing estrogen and plans to undergo surgery when she is an adult in order to become a full woman.

Would you believe I started out reading about an economic proposal by President Obama?

It's very strange how I wander about the internet without any GPS unit to guide me. But, then, I really have no final destination in mind when I start, just a ride along the scenic route of news and happenings.

The trip (if I may call it that) took these paths:

http://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=en&tab=wn
http://news.google.com/news/more?pz=1&cf=all&ncl=d168sckQu761Q3MEIRNCBgUv-769M&topic=h
http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/02/12/who-owns-america/
http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/02/12/meet-the-new-un-boss-same-as-the-old-un-boss/#pageTitle
http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/02/12/a-soundbite-on-howard-zinn-heard-round-the-world//#pageTitle
http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/02/12/tea-parties-like-kryptonite-to-marvel//#pageTitle
http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/02/12/gender-optional//#pageTitle

And, finally, to the actual article I referenced above. It's not my fault, really. It's just that I never had a disciplined mind. I blame my schooling. I was taught to unleash my imagination. Whenever I did, it ran away and I would spend hours chasing it while the teachers droned on. Now, some called this "daydreaming", I preferred to think of it as "musing." Which is a word I mistook to mean a short form of "amusing".

When I think back
On all the crap I learned in high school
It's a wonder
I can think at all
And though my lack of edu---cation
Hasn't hurt me none
I can read the writing on the wall.
["Kodachrome" by Paul Simon]


That guy, Simon, was what you might call prescient, wasn't he?