10 things to do instead of wallowing in all the bad news

Ten Things to Do Instead of Wallowing |Blogs | NCRegister.comFISHER: As Catholics and as citizens, we have a responsibility to be well-informed about the news, because we have a responsibility to do the right things:� write to our congressmen, elect the right (or the least disastrous) candidates, make the right choices for our kids' education, maybe boycott or support the right corporations, and of course pray for the right things.� But keeping up with the news most certainly falls under the law of diminishing returns.� After a while, reading the headlines stops informing you and starts deflating you.� You think you're filling your brain with information so you can be spurred to action, but you're really just filling your heart with despair until you feel like there's no point in even trying to act.