Don't read news, make art
With all the crazy headlines coming our way, why add on to our feelings of powerlessness with the way things are turning out? I mean if you can do something that will change things for the positive, do it. If not...
...why not make this the time where you feed your soul with the power of art? Especially art, however crappy or juvenile it may seem, that YOU make?
Wouldn't it be something to look back on a small body of work that is yours?