News...

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it. -- Thomas Jefferson

I stopped reading newspapers a decade ago, when I was suffering from depression. Previously I'd always wakened myself by setting my radio-clock to the CBC morning news at 7 p.m. - if I wasn't already depressed, the news of new worldwide disasters, wars, and environmental decay would have made me so.

Thing is, the things I really want to know aren't covered by the media. They say what, but not why. And I don't know anything that makes me feel as powerless as hearing about atrocities and not being able to do anything about it.

Best thing about the newspapers is the comics. But they aren't as funny as they used to be.