football and pixie dust

I don't get the whole occupy wall street thing...I think all the candidates are off their rocker...I am frightened that our economy is one media frenzy away from collapse. 

I have never LIKED watching the news, but now, I can't even look at it.  Just seeing the headlines when I sign in to my computer every morning depresses me.  I know I am an adult, and I am supposed to care, and have opinions, and be educated in order to cast an educated vote, but with every awful news story I find myself feeling more and more helpless.  The world has pretty much always been in a state of turmoil.  There have always been bad people, there has always been at least two countries at war, there is always at least one economy near collapse; there has NOT always been a gazillion media conglomerates with the technology to instantly share all that bad news and make money off it. 

WHERE IS ALL THE GOOD NEWS?!

There are babies being born and doing cute things every day and yet for some reason the only time I see a baby in the news is if it has disappeared, been brutally killed, or popped out the vagina of a celebrity.  I can't see that shit without getting sick to my stomach.  I want to see pictures of healthy babies that were born to normal people...I know they are out there.

There are couples getting married every day...happy couples, that actually love each other, and don't have a movie premiering this Friday.  I would like to see some happy love stories.

Not all guys going through divorces murder their families and kill themselves, but you would think so if you read the news.  I want more stories like this:   http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2051501/101-uses-ex-wifes-wedding-dress-Husband-turns-pain-divorce-hilarious-new-book.html?ITO=1490 I just happened to stumble on this story because in my haste to exit out of the headlines page, after a third horrifying story flashed across the screen, I clicked on this.

I can't take it anymore.  I don't care if I end up sounding like an uneducated moron and vote for an idiot (which is pretty much a given, regardless of who I vote for).  Here is what I plan to do (because after all, news is a business and consumer driven and not watching the 6 o'clock or buying newspapers didn't stop it from creeping into my life) I am going to change my default log in page from MSN to igoogle and I am only going to allow things like: the weather, sports, inspirational quotes, news from Disney, or pictures of puppies.  If I read any news at all it will be from http://www.theonion.com/ .   I will no longer see the horrible headlines, which should keep me from being horrified all day, thinking about them.  I won't go to yahoo or aol, and any of my Facebook friends that post links to things that are awful, I will hide from my view.

I know the world is not all football, magic, and pixie dust, but damnit, I want it to be.