9 Easy Steps To Getting Over #Batfleck: Ben Affleck As Batman

Follow all nine steps without any Batman- or Ben-specific browser windows open and I assure you you will be cured. Zen over Ben.

1.) Close your eyes and breathe. Do a whole ZEN thing if you have to. ZEN over BEN.

2.) Remember how hard people would have laughed in 2003 if told he'd win an Oscar for directing ten years later.

3.) Ask yourself the more important question: might it be cooler if there didn't HAVE to be another iteration of Batman instead of, say, a brand spanking new original superhero franchise?

4.) Ask yourself an even MORE important question: wazzup in the Middle East today?

5.) Go to http://www.nytimes.com/pages/world/index.html to find out!

Then also go to some European and Middle Eastern sites, too.

6.) Ask yourself an as important question: wazzup in Regular Old USA today?

7.) Let Rachel Maddow tell you: http://nbcnews.to/1ayry6I

CLICK HERE!

8.) Ask yourself one final question: what's going on in Greenland, and what do the 50+ wildfires currently raging in the American West have to do with it?

9.) Let Jason Box tell you: http://rol.st/14NgQXy

CLICK HERE!