‘NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS’ said 19th Century French author Ludovic Halévy. He was wrong. News, by definition, is either good or bad (elsewise it would not be ‘news’). Over the past few years, I became a bit of a news junkie and it was more often than not bad. So, last week, I announced I’m taking a respite from the news. I’m burned out on the aggravation, the fear, the frustration, the doubt about what the world is becoming. Ergo, I’m now on sabbatical from the news. It has been a week. It is driving me crazy. I know that ‘no news’ is just ‘no news’; it is usually not ‘good news.’ Stuff is taking place whether I know about it or not. I feel out of touch and, to reference another trite phrase, ignorance is definitely not bliss. How long I can hold out remains to be seen. Yet, I’m getting more reading done, since I’m not wasting time perusing news sites and watching cable news, so that’s good. But I can’t help wondering what politician made a fool of himself, or his constituents, today. What are the latest statistics about Covid deaths, gun deaths, and half-assed court decisions. How much farther have we progressed in our continual march toward Armageddon. I remind myself of the words of Mad Magazine’s Alfred E. Newman: ‘What, me worry?’
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