Understood. Sometimes I say to myself, I am not going to look today. But then I find that I have to...
Same here. I had to go out of state to visit relatives recently, and had a thought that while I was gone, I'd probably feel a bit lighter because I wouldn't be absorbing all of the latest outrages from Washington.
Well, I didn't. In fact, all the time I was gone, I kept thinking that I was in the dark about some new threat or horror because I couldn't get to my usual info sources.
That's how accustomed I am to the barrage. Stinks, doesn't it?