I flat out hate the news aspect of the internet.

It's so saturated in nastiness, trendiness, outright spin doctored bull->-bleeped-<- and just a morass of negative garbage I'd rather not see at all.

Yeah yeah yeah no one made me look. Well have you tried avoiding seeing it lately?

I come here and people discuss the news, I go on my Facebook page and people discuss the news. Most free to use sites are saturated in news links. And some places, they are simply geared to news from the get go.

And then there is the whole rubberneck thing eh. It's human to look damn it

Not easy curbing that bad habit.

I guess I wish I could return to a world where news was something ONLY offered at 6 9 and a recap on the weekend, or through a weekly magazine when not in a newspaper. It was more planned, more thought out and less everyone screaming about it all the time.

EEEEEEEVERYTHING that weighs on my psyche, is just one more thing for my mind to carry around. And I have too much there already.

I have managed to all but retreat into my hobby room, content to no longer essentially speaking care what is happening in the world. Don't want to know, don't feel like caring. It's become such, that a web browser is only good to bring me here after a few inane comments on my Facebook and a pass by on a model based forum to chat about my current projects.

I need to research how to arrive at getting a decent wig. After that, maybe some clothing choices. I might require some sort of bust enhancement article to handle that which currently is not present. I almost feel like a mad scientist creating the new me in a secret laboratory.

I have a friend that is frequently discussing the fight for acceptance of TG in society. Sometimes the news overwhelms me though. And she is in the US at any rate, no specific Canadian relevance in her struggles.

I just wish times were a little less connected somehow I suppose. Well to the news that is. Too much social trauma in our world today.

I don't watch TV, I don't read the paper, and I don't read the big news sites.

I do stay connected, though. Otherwise I'd feel like an incredibly selfish person, not giving a hoot about awful stuff going on that I could very well do something about. If I'm going to be helping organizations and keeping track of how they're doing, how the people they want to help are doing, then that's news I want to keep up on. I want to be able to engage people on current events, tell them why the Olympics next year is a tragic disaster. Why Israel isn't the perfect innocent country that most of us think it is. I want to be able to tell people that water rights is an enormous issue right now, and why. I want to be able to have discussions about problematic legislation being proposed and passed in this country. That last one, at least, has a direct impact on all of us apathetic Americans. Wake up, people! Burying your head in the sand doesn't change anything.