Thankfully we have forums like Free Republic that help negotiate us through the liberal haze.
A great many threads here will be derived from articles that are hysterically and apoplectically critical of anyone or anything that is at all to the Right of Karl Marx. ....and although they do have their value in illustrating the lowbrow and entirely failed thinking of the Left, reading a lot of them can indeed put a dark cloud over one's head that doesn't necessarily need to be there.
You are doing the right thing in taking an occasional break to revel in the majesty of a few of God's cuter creatures :-)
Thankfully we have forums like Free Republic that help negotiate us through the liberal haze.
I believe that we would have had Gore and Kerry as Presidents if it had not been for Free Republic. The evils of Socialism are a continual threat and Free Republic is one of our great nation's better defenses against it.