An article at Fox News brings up a good point of how to think globally by acting locally: Buy something. Anything.

Red Cross donations are great (and boy have donations been rolling in, with $11 million and $6 million (as of this moment) raised via Yahoo! and Amazon, respectively), but the the economy has also been injured, as signified by 12,000 Continental Airlines layoffs, with more to come soon in other industries.

In an effort to shore up my own psyche, I did a little medicinal shopping at IKEA yesterday to the tune of $520. If there's something you've been needing or thinking about getting for a while, now is probably the best time (for the country) for you to get it...